Meanwhile, the disciplinary committee members said indiscipline would not be tolerated at any cost even as it appealed to Punjabis to shun ‘opportunist’ persons who had entered into a conspiracy with agencies to weaken the party.The committee also made it clear that it was working as per the party’s constitution and that it had been entrusted to take required actions by the powers vested by the Working Committee in SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal. The committee members said the expelled leaders were free to requisition a meeting of the Working Committee even as they asserted that 98 per cent of the Working Committee members had reposed faith in the leadership of Sukhbir Singh Badal.Meanwhile, Grewal clarified that the post of party patron was an honorary one and that the latter did not have any power to take any decision on behalf of the party. He also dismissed Dhindsa’s contention that the expelled leaders had tried to initiate a reform movement in the party. “Building a parallel organization along with a Presidium can only be considered as an anti-party activity,” he said adding Dhindsa had as disciplinary committee chairman expelled then SGPC president Gurcharan Singh Tohra from the party for appealing to Parkash Singh Badal to appoint an Acting President of the party. He also cited how Dhindsa did not find anything wrong with Sukhbir Singh Badal’s conduct on rejoining the party on March 5 this year but started questioning the latter’s leadership when his son Parminder Dhindsa was not given the party ticket from Sangrur.Grewal, while speaking about the role of another expelled leader Prem Singh Chandumajra, said the latter had approved Operation Black Thunder as a cabinet minister in 1985 and had even hailed the “maafi” given to the Dera Sirsa head. He said for Chandumajra the party president was good till the latter did not accede to all his demands including two assembly seats for his family and a Lok Sabha ticket for himself even though he had no natural right over the same.
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