Chandigarh, Aug. 26 -- The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Monday passed a resolution appealing to the US government to take a humanitarian view of truck driver Harjinder Singh's case and appealed to the Union government to extend consular and legal assistance to the Sikh youth.

The resolution was passed during a meeting of the leadership from six districts of the state under the chairmanship of party president Sukhbir Singh Badal.

The meeting also decided to conduct a historic political conference at Moga on August 31 which has been designated as a Fateh rally to lay out the party programme to take on centrist parties which have ruined Punjab.

Speaking about the resolution on Harjinder Singh, Sukhbir the Sikh youth deserved a fair trial....