SAD MP Brahmpura relinquishes party posts, won't contest 2019 polls

In a blow to SAD, senior SAD leader and Lok Sabha MP Ranjit Singh Brahmpura Tuesday relinquished all party posts on health grounds, the second party leader to do so within a month.

The Khadoor Sahib MP, who was holding the post of senior vice-president and was a member of party's core committee, also declared he would not contest the next Lok Sabha polls, but would complete this term.

Addressing the media at his residence here, Brahmpura said he was upset with the way the sacrilege incidents were handled by the previous SAD-BJP government.

Brahmpura is the second senior leader to quit the party