Dal Khalsa | Dál gCais | Maria Vittoria dal Pozzo | Francesco Dal Co | Carlo Emmanuele dal Pozzo, 5th Prince of Cisterna | Biju Janata Dal | Toti Dal Monte | Surgeon Bong Dal-hee | Silvestro Ganassi dal Fontego | Rashtriya Parivartan Dal | Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal | ''Dal makhani | Dal Lake | Dal-ja's Spring | Dal | Cassiano dal Pozzo | A Dal |
Information on castes was included in the census following demands from several ruling coalition leaders including Lalu Prasad Yadav, Sharad Yadav and Mulayam Singh Yadav supported by opposition parties Bharatiya Janata Party, Akali Dal, Shiv Sena and Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam.
However in 1971, Akali Dal was able to capture only one out of 13 Lok Sabha seats, and in the Punjab Assembly elections of March 1972, the Akalis won only 24 seats out of 117 seats.
His father Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa is Akali Dal General Secretary, former Union minister and Rajya Sabha member.
In 1940, he became president of the Shiromani Akali Dal and presided over the first Sarb Hind Akali Conference at Atari, in Amritsar district, on 10 February 1940.