Chandigarh, Feb. 25 -- Senior BJP leader and party's national council member, Sanjay Tandon, on Tuesday emphasised the need for an inclusive and balanced mayoral tenure system in Chandigarh that ensures fair representation to all major social categories while enabling effective governance.

Sharing his views on the mayoral tenure structure in a statement, Tandon said that the first two-year tenure should be allocated to a woman mayor, followed by one year for a Scheduled Caste (SC) representative and two-year for a General category mayor.

He pointed out that if the tenure is two and a half years, it would become difficult to accommodate all social groups adequately. "By adopting a five-year cycle with two years for women, one year for SC...