After a political row erupted over a bulletin of Parliament, the Centre on Sunday clarified that “no final decision has been taken” on its proposal relating to Chandigarh’s administrative arrangements and stressed the move “does not aim to change traditional arrangements between the Union territory and Punjab and Haryana.”

The controversy began when a Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha bulletin showed the Government had proposed to include the Union territory of Chandigarh within the ambit of Article 240 of the Constitution -- a provision that empowers the President to make regulations for certain Union territories and, effectively, to legislate directly for them.

That suggestion, the bulletin said, forms part of the Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill, 2025, which the Centre plans to introduce i

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