CHANDIGARH: Citing that he was disappointed over the party’s sectarian politics and religious issues over broader concerns affecting Punjab, former Punjab cabinet minister Anil Joshi resigned from the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Wednesday.Joshi said he felt like a “misfit” in the party. In a strongly worded resignation letter addressed to the party’s working president, Balwinder Singh Bhundar, Joshi said that the Shiromani Akali kali Dal is stuck in religious and Sikh Panth issues. There is no thinking about communal brotherhood.”I had left BJP in protest against the anti-farm laws and I joined the Shiromani Akali Dal because I believed in the secular and inclusive vision of Parkash Singh Badal but with heavy heart, I have to leave as there is no progressive thinking in this party anymore and the party now seems focused on religion and sectarian agendas, which leaves no space for my principles,’’ he said.
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