Amritsar, July 24 -- The Akal Takht-appointed panel, which is to oversee the reorganisation of the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), has left the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) in a fix by announcing to hold elections to pick the party president and office-bearers at the Teja Singh Samundri Hall, the gurdwara body's headquarters, on August 11.

This is the same venue where the Badal camp had on April 12 conducted its polls and re-elected former deputy CM Sukhbir Singh Badal as the party president. Historically, SAD has been holding major gatherings here.

For the SGPC, which is under the control of the Badal-led SAD, this is a major dilemma as allowing the panel to go ahead with the elections at its headquarters would challenge S...