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Monday, March 16, 2026
TopicBJP Chandigarh

Topic: BJP Chandigarh

How BJP wrested Chandigarh mayor’s post from AAP-Congress with 11th hour defection & 3 cross-votes

AAP-Congress won senior dy mayor & dy mayor posts. This comes a year after SC reprimanded returning officer, an ex-BJP leader, for tampering with ballot papers in BJP's favour.

After 10 yrs as Chandigarh BJP chief, Sanjay Tandon gets ticket to contest Lok Sabha polls

The incumbent BJP MP from Chandigarh, actor-politician Kirron Kher, had stepped aside citing ill health.

As Congress, Akali abstain, BJP pips AAP in Chandigarh mayor poll by 1 vote — just like last year

Last year, too, BJP had won the mayoral elections by one vote against the AAP, with both the Congress and Akali Dal abstaining from voting.

Now, BJP-led Chandigarh civic body passes resolution, asks Punjab & Haryana to get new capitals

While other councillors staged walkout, BJP members in Municipal Corporation Chandigarh passed resolution seeking assembly for it, just like Puducherry.

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Gulf conflict pushes Dubai diamond traders to eye Surat for rough stone auctions. But there are hurdles

Industry leaders say India’s complicated customs process and GST levies are deterrents for traders to come to Surat for auctions.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.