See a short list of the top news, recommended stories and exclusives here.The Congress party attacked the Bharatiya Janata Party, claiming that the delay in the Chandigarh mayoral elections was a result of the BJP’s failed ‘Operation Lotus’. The operation, widely used to describe the BJP’s alleged strategy of engineering defections to destabilize the government, appears to have suffered a setback. According to the Congress Party, the delay in the elections proves that the BJP cannot accept a comfortable victory. The political process will be more complex than the ongoing power struggle and allegations of instability of the Indian political system, especially the administration’s claims about the democratic process.
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