Chandigarh, April 7 -- The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) has called a meeting of the working committee at party headquarters in Chandigarh on April 8 to fix the schedule for general session to elect the new president and office-bearers.

Party leader Daljit Singh Cheema announced this on Sunday on a social platform and added that the party's working president Balwinder Singh Bhundar would chair the meeting.

Last week, the SAD parliamentary board announced to hold organisational polls of the party from April 2. The election of the district and state delegates was held on April 6.

The process initiated by the party for electing office-bearers and the party president is seen as a clear defiance to the December 2 decree of the Akal Takht that c...