Chandigarh, April 9 -- The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Tuesday announced that it will hold the delegate session to elect a new party president and office bearers on April 12.

The delegate session will take place at Teja Singh Samundari Hall in the Golden Temple Complex.

This was decided in the working committee meeting, which was presided over by party working president Balwinder Singh Bhundar, held at party headquarters here.

The turmoil within SAD, which was already battling diminishing electoral returns post the 2015 sacrilege incidents, deepened when Sukhbir Singh Badal, who had been declared 'tankhaya' (guilty of religious misconduct), resigned from the president post on November 16. His resignation was accepted by the party work...