AAP-BJP Clash: Councillors exchange blows, throw boxes at MCD House

Amid heavy chaos and sloganeering, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi house was adjourned for the 5th time after resuming early on Thursday morning, after AAP and BJP councillors continued to clash with each other. The MCD house faced repeated disruptions amid the heavy sloganeering and chaos.

According to the visuals, the situation become so chaotic that the Councillors started throwing ballot boxes while some were captured pushing others and exchanging blows. The chaos emerged during the election for the members of standing committee when BJP members alleged that during the secret voting, the Councillors were taking photographs of the ballots through their mobile, which is a violation of the secret ballot.

As a result, BJP members demanded for a fresh elections. When the house was adjourned, AAP leader, Saurabh Bharadwaj hit out against BJP and said, “BJP councillors are trying to postpone the standing committee polls. Supreme Court had clearly said that all elections should happen in the first sitting. So, we want the elections today only, whether it happens at night or in the morning.”

“BJP deliberately wants to conduct the whole election of standing committee again. In this way, the process will never end. The MCD Secretary has also said that they only have 245 ballots, and we can’t conduct the whole election again,” he added. Hitting back at the AAP, BJP spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla called it an “Anarchist Acrimonious Party”.

“AAP = Anarchist Acrimonious Party. Fearing defeat and cross-voting; you engineer every attempt to sabotage and steamroll rules and laws! Then play the victim card! If this is how affairs will be conducted on Day 1 by the Mayor people of Delhi better brace themselves,” Poonawalla said on Twitter.