Tribune news service
Amritsar, November 27
Bibi Jagir Kaur, Senior Leader of SAD, has been elected Chairman of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee for the fourth time.
Previously, the members, due to their loyalty to SAD, entrusted all rights to the party chairman, Sukhbir Singh Badal, to answer the call to elect the new head of the Sikh corps, during a closed session at Teja Singh Samundri Hall here.
Amid opposition from some members, who proposed the name of former SAD leader Mithu Singh Kahneke, the voting process was adopted.
Jagir Kaur emerged the winner with a convincing margin. He obtained 122 votes out of a total of 143.
She was previously chair of the committee from 1999 to 2000.
In 2000, she resigned from her post after the controversy in which she was accused of killing her daughter. She was acquitted by the Punjab and Haryana High Court in December 2018.
The rest of the occupants were elected unanimously.
Surjeet Singh Bhittewid was elected Senior Vice President and Junior Vice President of Buta Singh. Bhagwant Singh Sialka was elected general secretary.
Kahneke, a member of the Mansa SGPC, had resigned from the main SAD membership due to differences with leadership in August.
Bibi Jagir Kaur proposed her name to the executive.
Other executive members are Navtej Singh, Baldev Singh Chung, Satwinder Singh Tohra, Bhupinder Singh Bhelwan, Amrik Singh, Sant Charanjit Singh, Darshan Singh, Harbhajan Singh, Malkiat Kaur and Ajmer Singh.
