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Shiromani Akali Dal is a national party.
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Dal, regional political party in Punjab state, northwestern India. It is the
principal advocacy organization of the large Sikh community in the state and is
centred on the philosophy of promoting the well-being of the country’s Sikh
population by providing them with a political as well as a religious platform.
The party also has a presence on the national political scene in New Delhi.
The precursor to the present-day SAD was an organization established in
December 1920 to help guide the quasi-militant Akali movement of the early
1920s, in which Sikhs demanded and (through the Sikh Gurdwara Act of 1925)
won from the ruling British authorities in India control over the gurdwaras (Sikh
houses of worship). The present-day SAD, which has claimed to be the oldest
regional political party in India, has also controlled Sikh religious institutions
such as the Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee (SGPC) and, more
recently, the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee. From the mid-
1920s the SAD was a part of the Indian independence movement, and its
members participated in the protests and civil-disobedience programs
(satyagraha) of Mohandas K. Gandhi and the Indian National Congress (Congress
Party). Although the SAD remained committed to the broader objectives .