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Chandigarh BJP councillors suggest names for mayor’s post
The mayoral election is scheduled for January 8 and the nomination papers can be filed by January 4
BJP national general secretary and state party in-charge Dushyant Gautam met all 20 BJP councillors at the party’s city headquarters, Kamalam, in Sector 33 on Wednesday.
During their one-on-one meeting with Gautam, the councillors were asked to suggest two names each for three posts - mayor, senior deputy mayor and deputy mayor. Their resumes were also taken.
Gautam will now convey his feedback to the party high command which will decide the names.
Gautam also met party workers, former BJP MP Satya Pal Jain and former president Sanjay Tandon.
The mayoral election is scheduled for January 8 and the nomination papers can be filed by January 4. The party is expected to announce the names of candidates for the three posts on January 4.
Even as different councillors proposed their own names for the mayor’s post, most of them, it is learnt, opposed the candidature of the incumbent state party chief Arun Sood. Councillors asked the central leadership to follow the principle of “one man one post”.
