“BJP Councillors Attacked Me”: Delhi Mayor Shelly Oberoi

Violent clashes broke out between many councillors of the AAP and the BJP.

New Delhi:

Hours after the municipal Home was rocked by contemporary clashes between the councillors of the BJP and the AAP, Delhi Mayor Shelly Oberoi on Friday alleged that just a few members of the saffron occasion inflicted life-threatening assault on her.

At a press convention in Delhi, she alleged that her colleague Ashu Thakur was additionally attacked by one other BJP councillor.

There was no instant response from the Bharatiya Janata Celebration (BJP).

Shortly earlier than the media interplay held on the Civic Centre, the mayor adjourned the Home and introduced that the election to 6 members of the standing committee of the Municipal Company of Delhi (MCD) will likely be held afresh on February 27 at 11 am.

AAP MLA Atishi alleged Ms Thakur was held by her scarf and dragged from the dais to one of many exit gates of the Home.

“We are going to go to the Kamla Market Police Station and lodge a case of life-threatening assault on Mayor Shelly Oberoi and our different ladies councillors,” Ms Atishi stated.

Scenes of uproar and high-decibel protests by BJP councillors have been witnessed within the Home after Oberoi declared that one vote solid throughout the election to the standing committee of MCD on Friday, was “invalid”.

The bedlam within the Home become a full-bown pandemonium and violent clashes broke out between many councillors of the AAP and the BJP.

Mayor Oberoi had barely began to announce the outcomes when the ruckus started. One councillor even ripped off the mayor’s mike on the dais.

“After I was saying the standing committee election outcome, they (BJP councillors) pushed my chair and attacked me. BJP councillors Ravi Negi, Arjun Marwah, Chandan Choudhary and others inflicted life-threatening assault on me,” she alleged.

She stated poll papers used on Friday have been “torn” and misplaced in order an ethical accountability, contemporary election will likely be held for choosing the six members of the MCD panel.

Ms Atishi alleged that what BJP members did on Friday was akin to “sales space capturing”.

“The BJP should settle for its defeat within the MCD polls. They need to not attempt to use violence to get again door entry into (MCD) governance,” she stated.

The mayor additionally alleged that the ruckus on Friday amounted to disrespect of the Home and the chair of the mayor, and was “sheer hooliganism”.

Ashu Thakur, later speaking to reporters, stated her scarf was wrapped round her neck. “I used to be dragged by the headband from the dais to an exit door, and if the fabric had tightened longer, it may have suffocated me to loss of life,” she added.

Later, AAP supporters held a protest outdoors the Kamla Market Police Station.

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