BHIKHIWIND (TARN TARAN): The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) staged a massive dharna led by it’s president Sukhbir Singh Badal and blocked the main Chowk at Bhikhiwind to protest against the murder of democracy by Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) goons who tore the nomination papers of Akali candidates to prevent them from contesting the Block Samiti and Zila Parishad elections.
Asserting that he was with party workers and would lead all protests to safeguard democracy in the Samiti and Parishad polls from the front, Mr Sukhbir Badal said “we will not allow this corrupt and failed government to suppress democracy at any cost”.
He also rang up the State Election Commission and informed it that the SAD had video evidence of AAP workers tearing the nomination papers of Akali candidates with the open support of the police force.
Subsequently the SSP Tarntaran visited the dharna site and ensured that all Akali candidates were allowed to file their nomination papers, following which the dharna was lifted.