Chandigarh Dec 23 PTI Former MP Ranjit Singh Brahmpura rejoined the Shiromani Akali Dal SAD in the presence of party stalwart Parkash Singh Badal on ThursdayBrahmpura was the patron of the Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa-led SAD SanyuktHe was against an alliance or a seat-sharing arrangement between the SAD Sanyukt and the BJP for the 2022 Punjab Assembly pollsUnion Home Minister Amit Shah had earlier said the Bharatiya Janata Party BJP was in talks with former chief minister Amarinder Singh and Dhindsa to forge an alliance with their partiesA few days ago the saffron party announced its tie-up with Amarinder Singhs party the Punjab Lok Congress for the Assembly polls due early next yearAlong with Brahmpura other SAD Sanyukt leaders who joined the Akali Dal included Ujjagar Singh Badaali Mohinder Singh Hussainpur Ravinder Singh Brahmpura -- all of whom were appointed as vice presidents of the party -- and Karnail Singh Peermohammad who was appointed as its general secretaryBrahmpura was expelled from the SAD in 2018 after he raised a banner of revolt against the party leadershipSpeaking on the occasion Brahmpura said I was on leave from my parent party just the way a soldier goes on leave before rejoining his battalion He recalled the SADs sacrifices for the panth and Punjab and said Now it is our responsibility to strengthen the party We will go from house to house to usher in a new revolution in the state SAD patron Parkash Singh Badal said if he had got the opportunity to become the chief minister five times Brahmpura had a big role to play in itBrahmpura sahab is an Akali and will always remain an Akali Today I am very happy that two brothers have joined hands again he addedMeanwhile the SAD demanded that a high court judge should monitor the probe into the recent cases of sacrilege bids in PunjabThe party announced that it would hold a Panthic Rosh Ikath at the Manji Sahib in the Darbar Sahib complex in Amritsar on January 2 to protest against the police inaction in the casesA decision in this regard was taken at a meeting of the partys core committee which was presided by SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal and attended by Parkash Singh Badal according to a statement issued by the partyAfter the meeting Sukhbir Badal said Sikhs and Punjabis do not have any faith in the Congress government and its home minister They are convinced that the government is bent upon saving those behind the heinous cases of sacrilege and does not have any interest in uncovering the conspiracy behind these incidents He said the government had failed to unravel the conspiracy behind the cases despite the fact that the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee SGPC handed over the man responsible for throwing the holy Gutka Sahib into the sarovar at the Golden Temple to policeHad this case been investigated properly the subsequent ghastly event of December 18 in the sanctum sanctorum of the Harmandar Sahib would have been averted the former Punjab deputy chief minister saidAn unidentified man was beaten to death for his alleged sacrilege attempt at the Golden Temple on December 18 PTI CHS VSD RC