EX-MLA Bony Ajnala quits SAD
AMRITSAR: Amid the tussle with Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD)’S key leader Bikram Singh Majithia, two-time former MLA from Ajnala Amarpal Singh Bony also known as Bony Ajnala, on Saturday resigned from the primary membership of the party.
Before tendering his resignation, addressed to the SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal, he conducted a meeting with his supporters in Ajnala town.
He took the step days after the party appointed Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) member Jodh Singh Samra as halqa incharge of Ajnala in place of him. Annoyed over it, he stated in the resignation letter, “I have resorted to tender my resignation from the primary membership and other responsibilities because all is not well in the party under your leadership. People who betrayed the party, are being appointed as halqa incharge and other posts.”
“Directives given by the Akal Takht Sahib acting jathedar Giani Harpreet Singh for wellbeing of Punjab, Punjabi, Punjabiat and Sikh Panth and recommendations of Iqbal Singh Jhunda review panel are entirely being ignored. In view of this, the SAD no longer remains as the party for the well-being of Punjab and Panth constitutionally and publicly. In this atmosphere, it is impossible for me to be there in the party. So, I am sending you the resignation”, he added.
Bony is the son of the Akali stalwart, former MP and MLA Rattan Singh Ajnala. This is for the second time that he has left the party. Bony — who remained Ajnala MLA twice, in 2007 and 2012 — had left the party to join the breakaway group Shiromani Akali Dal (Taksali), floated by his father and other rebels including late Ranjit Singh Brahmpura in December 2018. Samra, who is close to Majithia, served as halqa incharge in his absence in the party at time as well. Bony returned to the mother party in February, 2020 and he contested the 2022 assembly elections from the SAD unsuccessfully.
Tussle of Bony with Majithia prevailed because the former filed affidavit in the court in a drug racket case, that went against Majithia.