HIS PARTY’S VOICE

Manish Tewari, member of Parliament, Anandpur Sahib

Erudite and argumentative lawyer-politician Manish Tewari, who first made a bid for a Lok Sabha nomination as the Congress candidate from Chandigarh, but was fielded from Anandpur Sahib instead to win the seat, remained one of the most prominent faces of the Congress this year. From one television channel to another, one press conference to another, Tewari has been holding forth on various issues such as the scrapping of Article 370 which gave special status to Jammu and Kashmir or the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act. The next few years, given his connect with Chandigarh, are likely to see Tewari playing a bigger role in city politics.