Lok Sabha Polls 2024: On Manish Tewari's Debate Challenge, BJP Nominee Questions His Shifting Stance

While the BJP nominee Mr Tandon has been levelling allegations that Manish Tewari is an outsider, Mr Tewari has been busy trying to prove that his roots belong to Chandigarh.

With the campaigning for the Lok Sabha election gathering pace in Chandigarh, a war on X, formerly Twitter, has broken out between INDIA bloc candidate Manish Tewari and BJP's Sanjay Tandon. While the BJP nominee Mr Tandon has been levelling allegations that Manish Tewari is an outsider, Mr Tewari has been busy trying to prove that his roots belong to Chandigarh. I challenge the BJP candidate @SanjayTandonBJP for a debate on local, national & international issues on any neutral non partisan platform.The People of Chandigarh have a right to judge the calibre of the person who would represent them in Parliament. pic.twitter.com/V64ZFmN52n Tewari ji,Please first explain to the voters the reason you have made a shift from Ludhiana to Anandpur Sahib in the last election and from Anandpur Sahib to Chandigarh in this election? Why did you run away from contesting in Anandpur Sahib or Ludhiana this time around?… https://t.co/PMChxXHPlV Dear @SanjayTandonBJP ji a.k.a Anil Masih jiIf you have the conviction of courage please accept my challenge for an open debate.Before asking me such inane questions please also recall that your respected father Late Balram Ji Tandon ji for whom I have the greatest personal… https://t.co/Rje0GTdOpR It has been 30 hours since I challenged to @SanjayTandonBJP to an open debate.Rather than picking up the gauntlet he is obfuscating & dissimulating & finding excuses not to debate with me including doing some choreographed and fixed ‘Chai Pe Charcha'A person who is scared… https://t.co/wrnkJAO9C1

Polling for the lone Chandigarh parliamentary constituency will take place on June 1.

Mr Tewari has dared Mr Tandon for debate on various issues so that the people can judge who would be better to represent them in Parliament.