Chandigarh Member of Parliament Manish Tewari Friday introduced a comprehensive amendment Bill in the Lok Sabha seeking to give Chandigarh a directly elected Mayor, Senior Deputy Mayor and Deputy Mayor with a fixed five-year tenure — ending the city’s unique and controversial system of electing its civic leadership for just one year.

The bill brings a restructuring of the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation where he sought that the role of elected representatives in the civic body be strengthened. He tabled the amendment Bill in the anti defection law.

A Mayor in Chandigarh is elected from amongst the elected councillors for a one-year term. Every year in January, the Mayor elections take place in ‘City Beautiful’.

All these years it is the Punjab Municipal Corporation Act 1976 that is e

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