The Shiromani Akali Dal adopted a resolution at Anandpur Sahib in 1973 setting out its political programme. It asked for the transfer of Chandigarh to Punjab, the transfer of Punjabi-speaking areas left in Haryana and Rajasthan, control of river waters on riparian principle, a greater share of central industrial investment, and a general devolution of powers from the centre to all states with the centre retaining defence, foreign affairs, currency and communications.
It also contained religious demands, including an all-India gurdwara act and the recognition of Sikh identity in law.
There are several versions of the text. The 1973 draft, the 1978 Ludhiana revision, and the versions circulated by opponents differ, and the differences matter, because the document was described by the central government from 1981 onward as secessionist.
Read on the state-autonomy section alone, it is close to what the Sarkaria Commission later recommended and what several other states have demanded since. Read through the versions circulated by its opponents, it is a demand for a separate country.
The resolution became the reference point of the agitation of the early 1980s. What it actually said is still argued about, and the argument was never conducted on an agreed text.
It was adopted by the Akali Dal in 1973 and revised afterward, and its versions differ enough that arguments about it are often arguments about which text is meant.
The Sarkaria Commission on centre and state relations reported in 1988 and recommended, by and large, that the existing balance of powers stay, with a few modest changes in the direction of what the autonomy section had asked for. Almost none of that was implemented either, which is a fact both sides of the argument tend to leave out.
It was described by its opponents as secessionist and by its authors as federalist. Reading the document itself is the only way to have the argument and very few people who have the argument have done it.