Shortly before the Municipal Corporation of Delhi’s (MCD) standing committee elections on Friday, AAP councillor from Bawana, Pawan Sehrawat, joined the BJP.
Soon after joining the BJP, Sehrawat alleged that AAP politics was ”suffocating”. He alleged that he was pressured to create ruckus in the MCD House on Wednesday.
Earlier on Thursday, the House was adjourned for the 13th time since it convened post the MCD polls on December 4, last year, after councillors of the ruling AAP and the Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party came to blows over polling to elect six members of the Standing Committee.
The MCD session was adjourned till 10 am on Friday.
Earlier, AAP leaders Shelly Oberoi and Aaley Mohammad Iqbal on Wednesday were elected as new mayor and deputy mayor of Delhi, respectively.
After AAP candidates were elected to the posts of mayor and deputy mayor on Wednesday, the proceedings for the election of standing committee members, which was opposed by BJP councillors over allowing mobile phones inside the polling booth, commenced.
The BJP members also demanded that the prior voting, which was allowed with mobile phones, should be done away with. This triggered ruckus leading to repeated adjournments.
Polling for the standing committee got underway on Wednesday evening, hours after AAP’s Shelly Oberoi was elected the new Mayor of Delhi. No sooner did the process start, the House descended into complete pandemonium, with AAP and BJP councillors exchanging blows, hurling water bottles, fruit and ballot boxes at each other leading to over a dozen adjournments.
The commotion continued way past midnight forcing the newly-elected mayor to adjourn the House for the day.