Amritsar, April 12 -- Sukhbir Singh Badal was elected the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president unanimously during the delegate meeting of the party, held at Teja Singh Samundri Hall, the headquarters of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee, at the Golden Temple complex on Saturday. This is the fourth time that he has been elected to the post.

Sukhbir had resigned from the post on November 16 last year after being declared a tankhaiya (guilty of religious misconduct) by the Akal Takht, the highest temporal seat of Sikhs, for the mistakes of the party and its government from 2007 to 2017.

Subsequently, the Akal Takht had pronounced a decree on December 2, calling for a revamp of the party and election of office-bearers within six mo...