“No relaxation can be given till a ‘tankhaiya’ takes on ‘tankhah’ successfully,” he said. On August 30, Sukhbir was declared ‘tankhaiya’ by the highest sikh temporal body for mistakes committed by the SAD-led Government from 2007-17, based on a complaint of its rebel party leaders. The Sikh clergy is yet to pronounce the punishment for his Sukhbir’s atonement. Recently a delegation of the Shiromani Akali Dal led by it working president Balwinder Singh Bhunder, spokesperson Arshdeep Singh Kler and former minister Dr Daljit Singh Cheema besides others had met the Jathedar (High Priest) and sought his nod to let the party contest the bypoll under the leadership of Sukhbir, as they held a closed-door discussion with the Jathedar at his residence in the Golden Temple complex. Sources claimed that was talk in the political circles that the party was inclined to field Sukhbir from Gidderbaha the same assembly segment his father and Akali patriarch Parkash Singh Badal had represented for five-consecutive terms from 1969 to 1985.
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