Chandigarh, April 22 -- The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has announced its mayoral candidates for three major municipal corporations in Haryana, setting the stage for a high-stakes electoral battle against the Congress party and the Aam Aadmi Party.
The saffron party has fielded Shyam Lal Bansal for Panchkula, Rajiv Jain for Sonipat, and Akshita Saini for the Ambala municipal corporation. This candidate selection reflects a calculated social engineering approach, with the party nominating two candidates from the Vaishya community and one from the Saini community.
In Panchkula, the BJP has placed its faith in 70-year-old Shyam Lal Bansal, a long-time party loyalist who has previously contested the Kalka assembly seat three times. Bansal, w...