Chandigarh and Punjab: The Broken Promises, Political Betrayals and the Fight for the Capital

Why Chandigarh’s 58-year dispute is intensifying again CHANDIGARH WAS NEVER meant to be contested territory. It was the vision of a wounded Punjab after Partition — a modern city built on Punjabi soil, funded by Punjab’s exchequer, and imagined as the state’s capital after Lahore was lost. Yet in 1966, when the Centre carved out…