Dal Khalsa backs CM

Now settled in USA, Meanwhile the Dal Khalsa, Human Rights and Democracy has sided with Badal in this crisis saying the situation called for strengthening his hands.

The two organisations stated that in case no clear stand was taken, the forces which had betrayed the interests of the Panth and Punjabiat earlier would raise their heads again.

Dal Khalsa spokesman Kanwarpal Singh and Democracy Forum general secretary Karamjit Singh, in a joint statement, said the stand taken by Tohra had plunged the Punjabi politics in deep crisis but regretted that the onslaught launched by the Badal supporters lacked political understanding.

They however opposed the intervention of Akal Takht to end the feud as it would make the supreme temporal institution controversial.

At the same time, they maintained that any move to sack Tohra from the Akali Dal would prove suicidal for Badal.

Vismad Nad, a Ludhiana based organisation, has convened a meeting of the Sikh academicians and other leaders on December 27 to discuss the crisis and find a way out.