Chandigarh, Feb. 19 -- Former Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) president Kirpal Singh Badungar announced his exit from the seven-member committee constituted by the Akal Takht on December 2 last year to supervise the re-organisation of the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD). He wrote to Akal Takht jathedar Giani Raghbir Singh, asking him to free him of the responsibility.

This comes a day after Harjinder Singh Dhami resigned as the SGPC president and offered to quit as the head of the panel.

Following the announcements, five of the seven members of the committee -- Gurpartap Singh Wadala, Manpreet Singh Ayali, Santa Singh Umaidpur, Iqbal Singh Jhoondan and Bibi Satwant Kaur, met at Bahadurgarh near Patiala on Tuesday and decided to...