Sukhbir Badal re-elected SAD President

Punjab deputy chief minister Sukhbir Singh Badal was today elected president of ruling Shiromani Akali Dal here for the second time in a row. 

Chief minister Parkash Singh Badal was elected unanimously as the patron of the party. 

The general delegate session of Shiromani Akali Dal took place here in which the delegates elected the party president and other office-bearers. 

Sukhbir's name as SAD president was proposed by the party's senior vice-president Ranjit Singh Brahmpura and endorsed by party secretary general Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa. 

Sukhbir is functioning as the president of the party since January 31, 2008. 

Sukhbir thanked the party leadership, particularly the senior leaders and party workers and sought their blessings and cooperation in future too. 

Sukhbir Badal not only led the party through difficult times to steer it to the corridors of governmental responsibility in 2007 but also helped it to perform the feat of back-to-back victories in the Punjab assembly elections", a resolution adopted at the meeting