Chandigarh, July 25 -- More than a week after Chandigarh member of parliament Manish Tewari resigned from the post, HS Lucky, president of the Chandigarh Pradesh Congress Committee has been appointed as chairman of the Art, Culture, Tourism and Heritage Preservation Committee on Thursday.

Lucky expressed gratitude to the Punjab governor and UT administrator, Gulab Chand Kataria for his appointment. Lucky also thanked MP Tewari for recommending his name in his place.

On July 14, two days after the UT administration constituted 10 standing committees under the Administrator's Advisory Council, Congress MP Tewari had stepped down as the chairperson of the sub-committee. While highlighting anomalies in the appointments, he had requested Kat...