Simranjit Singh Mann, president of Shiromani Akali Dal Amritsar (Mann), declared his grandson, Gobind Singh Sandhu, as the party's candidate for the Barnala seat.
On July 5th, when Amritpal Singh took oath of allegiance to the Indian Constitution as a Member of the Indian Parliament, Bibi Balwinder Kaur, Amritpal Singh's mother, addressed the media at Jallukhera village. She, interalia, said, "Anybody may say anything, but he (Amritpal Singh) is not a Khalistani supporter." She urged that now, with Amritpal Singh having taken an oath on the Indian Constitution, such allegations should cease.
A fragmented landscape is unfolding in Sikh electoral politics, marked by the significant reduction of the dominant force, SAD (Badal), which is now embroiled in internal strife that may lead to a split. As multiple players vie for influence, no single entity has yet consolidated all Sikh electoral power.
Simranjit Singh Mann, who also serves as the president of Shiromani Akali Dal Amritsar (Mann), faces the prospect of losing his seat after winning the Sangrur by-election in 2022.
In this video Sikh Siyasat editor Parmjeet Singh Gazi delves into the intricacies of Sikh electoral politics in Punjab ahead of the Lok Sabha polling on June 1st.
In a significant turn of events, Amritpal Singh, the president of Waris Punjab De party, founded by the late actor turned politician Deep Sidhu, is set to contest the upcoming Indian Parliament (Lok Sabha) elections from the Khadoor Sahib constituency in Punjab as an independent candidate.
Sikh group Dal Khalsa alongside Shiromani Akali Dal Amritsar announces the holding of a protest against India’s intelligence and security agencies, with the tactical approval from political leadership indulging in transnational repression, misusing provisions of draconian laws like UAPA by proscribing organisations and individuals as terrorist and unlawful, invoking NSA to curb Sikh activism beside keeping Sikh political detainees incarcerated beyond their jail term”.
To present the perspective of minorities and nationalities residing in India before the G-20, the Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) and the Dal Khalsa have decided to convene a Conclave under the nomenclature
S. Simranjit Singh Mann, President of Shiromani Akali Dal Amritsar (Mann), lost the election from Amargarh with a difference of around six thousand votes. Aam Aadmi Party candidate Prof. Jaswant Singh Gajjan Majra bagged the seat with more than 44 thousand votes.
A number of Sikh, Bahujan and Muslim activists held a joint protest at Jalandhar on August 15, which is marked annually as independence day by the Indian state. It is learnt that activists belonging to Dal Khalsa, Shiromani Akali Dal Amritsar (Mann), Rashtriya Muslim Morcha, Bhaujan Kranti Morcha, Sikh Youth Federation Bhindrawale (SYFB) and Akal Federation participated in this protest.
Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) has expressed deep concerns about the rising poverty and deprivation amongst the poor, jobless, masses and labour without work and wages. The impatience of the masses is rising by the day.
The Shiromani Akali Dal Amritsar’s Canada unit has written a letter to the Canadian Foreign Minister about anti-Muslim violence in Delhi.
The family members of slain Khalistan Liberation Force (KLF) chief Bhai Harmeet Singh (PHD), along with representatives of Sikh organisations and Sikh sangat organised Antim Ardas and Shaheedi Samgam in Bhai Harmeet Singh's memory. He as assassinated by gunmen on January 27 near Lahore.
The bandh call stands in continuity of a number of moves showing that the Punjab stands against Modi-Shah's Hindutva moves.
Terming it a state-sponsored violence on JNU students and teachers unleashed by BJP’s student wing ABVP goons, the Dal Khalsa and Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) squarely blamed it on Home Minister for engineering it. Both the organization demanded resignation of Home Minister Amit Shah and removal of Delhi police commissioner.
To pay glowing tributes to Mata Gujri and younger sons (Sahibzade's) of Tenth Sikh Guru- Guru Gobind Singh, the Shriomani Akali Dal (Amritsar) held a conference in which representatives of Dal Khalsa also participated. The speakers eulogized the supreme sacrifices of Sahibzade Fateh Singh and Zorawar Singh to uphold the truth, righteousness and principles of religion.
Kushalpal Singh and other leaders of Shiromani Akali Dal Amritsar (Mann) today held a press conference at Chandigarh to condemn arrests of their party cadres by the Punjab police.
In written statement issued today, Shiromani Akali Dal Amritsar (Mann) president Simranjit Singh Mann said that the Punjab police today arrested cadre of his party from the districts of Mohali, Ropar, Patiala and Fatehgarh Sahib were arrested including senior leader, Emaan Singh Mann, at the instance of Punjab CM Amarinder Singh.
Sikh marchers of Dal Khalsa and Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) were today barred from entering J & K. Acting upon the orders of the magistrate of Kathua, citing law and order problems, the Kathua police stopped activists of Dal Khalsa and Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) at the Madhopur-Kathua interstate border, stopping them from going to Srinagar to observer International Human Rights Day there tomorrow. The magistrate Mr Kalil Kant issued written orders prohibiting the march to enter into the state.
Perturbed over the plight of Kashmiri people who’s rights are being suppressed and abused en masse by the India’s fascist regime led by PM Narendra Modi, the Dal Khalsa along with SAD (Amritsar) has decided to observe the World Human Rights Day on the soil of Kashmir, where the worst human rights violations have occurred during 2019.
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