Chandigarh`s own head again |
Bureaucrat-turned-politician KJ Alphons’ appointment as the UT’s administrator exclusively will end the Punjab Raj Bhawan’s role in running Chandigarh, which has a unique position as the joint capital of Punjab and Haryana.The practice of the Punjab governor also holding the charge of the Chandigarh administrator was put in place in 1984 at the height of militancy in the border state. It was done to facilitate smooth coordination on security issues. Punjab was under President’s rule at the time.Before that, since 1966 when Haryana was carved out of a larger Punjab state, Chandigarh was administered by a chief commissioner, a serving bureaucrat who reported to the Union government.The chief commissioner system was discontinued on June 1, 1984, on the eve of Operation Bluestar in the Golden Temple in Amritsar.
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