Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers and leaders in Chandigarh are finding joy in the tug of war between leaders of the rival Congress camp. Congress leader Pawan Kumar Bansal, who had to quit his ministry during the rule of the United Progressive Alliance after a raid by the Central Bureau of Investigation on his nephew, is supposedly being upstaged in Chandigarh by party leader Manish Tewari. While the BJP's Chandigarh MP Kirron Kher defeated Bansal in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, Tewari decided not to re-contest from his Ludhiana seat in that poll. Now Tewari has shifted from Ludhiana and made Chandigarh his area of political work, much to Bansal's chagrin and the BJP's delight.
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