Former Chandigarh Mayor Pardeep Chhabra on Friday was appointed as the president of Chandigarh Territorial Congress Committee (CTCC).
Chhabra will replace BB Bahl who remained Chandigarh Congress president for over 14 years. Pardeep Chhabra remained city’s mayor in 2008. Also, the current party spokesperson for local unit, Chhabra too played a key role in party’s recent victory in mayoral election in which Congress won the post of Mayor as well Deputy Mayor despite adverse circumstances.
He is known to be a loyalist of former Union Minister and former Chandigarh MP Pawan Kumar BansalNotably, a list of four names comprising Pawan Sharma, Ravinder Pal Singh, Pardeep Chhabra and Harmohinder Singh lucky for the post of the party’s city president was forwarded to the senior party leadership in Delhi last year. In September last year, Shakeel Ahmed, who is in-charge of the party affairs for Chandigarh, had written a letter to party national president Sonia Gandhi calling for a change of the head of Chandigarh unit, stating that “there is dire need of change in the organisation as the party from past several months has become inactive in city.”