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BJP to announce its new city unit chief before mayoral poll

CHANDIGARH: The Chandigarh BJP will have a new chief before mayoral elections.



Rajinder Nagarkoti

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, November 28

The Chandigarh BJP will have a new chief before mayoral elections.

Earlier, there were speculations that the party will postpone the election of the new president after the mayoral elections, which are scheduled to be held on January 6 next year.

Sources revealed that today’s meeting of Prabhat Jha, the in-charge of the party’s Punjab and Chandigarh affairs, with office-bearers of the BJP local unit and MC councillors was a step in this direction.

Jha today held one-to-one meeting with party office-bearers and councillors to take their opinion on the names of the new party president and the party candidate for the Mayor’s election next year. In the meeting, the general secretary of the Punjab unit of the party, Dinesh Kumar, was also present.

Sources revealed that after the meeting, Jha told senior leaders that the party would announce the name of the new party president before the mayoral poll.

It is learnt that the party is likely to announce the name of the new BJP local unit chief in the second week of December.

At present, the Chandigarh unit of the BJP is divided into four camps — those led by party president Sanjay Tandon, MP Kirron Kher, former MP Satya Pal Jain and former Union Minister Harmohan Dhawan.

All groups want to grab the post of the party’s local unit president. Each group wants its member to be fielded as the BJP candidate for the Mayor’s post.

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