Five BJP faces among six new members in UT advisory council

Former MP and additional solicitor general of India Satya Pal Jain, senior BJP leaders Sanjay Tandon and Davesh Moudgil make a comeback

- Mandeep Kaur Narula

CHANDIGARH: Nearly six months after UT administrator Gulab Chand Kataria reconstituted the administrator's advisory council (AAC), leaving out several key figures of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the UT administration on Wednesday inducted six new members, five of whom are senior BJP leaders.

The move is being seen as a bid to placate the local BJP unit, who had cried foul after the council's reconstitution in December, stating that only those having connections with the new local leadership had been considered while those who had been working for the city and party for years, had been left out.

Among those who have now been included in the 54-member council are former MP and additional solicitor general of India Satya Pal Jain, senior BJP leaders Sanjay Tandon and Davesh Moudgil—all of whom are making a comeback.