NEW DELHI, Nov. 26 -- The Bharatiya Janata Party's Punjab unit was blindsided by the Union government's proposal to introduce the Constitution (131 Amendment) Bill, 2025, in the upcoming winter session of Parliament that sought to include the Union territory of Chandigarh in Article 240 of the Constitution which would alter the its administrative structure, said people aware of the details.

The state unit is learnt to have conveyed its concerns to the party high command about the ramification of the move on the state's internal security as well as party's electoral fortune in Punjab, the people quoted above said.

The Union home ministry on Sunday issued a statement that the proposal was "under consideration" amid an uproar over the move...