SAD disciplinary panel meet today

“Tohra has earlier been issuing statements critical of the government as well but to do so at a time when we are celebrating the tercentenary of the Khalsa, is wrong. This has an effect on the whole community, " Talwandi added.

“The Chief Minister has always treated Tohra with enormous respect. No decision is ever taken without informing Tohra. I don’t know why this has happened. We have all expressed our views forcefully within the party. I myself had spoken strongly when the BJP did not allot us the four seats we had asked for in the recent elections but I never spoke to the media,” he added.

He also added that the committee will take strict action against any party worker issuing statements or raising party matters in the press. However, at the same press conference Sharanjit Singh Dhillon, general secretary of the recently dissolved SAD youth wing, handed out a press release stating: “In his thirst for power, Tohra has once again stabbed the Panth in the back at a most inopportune time”. Significantly, Talwandi was unwilling to address the press conference till his son, Ranjit Singh Talwandi chairman of the PSIEC, arrived from Chandigarh and wrote out a press release.