High drama plays out again at Thiruvananthapuram Corporation Council meeting over fund misappropriation issue
The Hindu
Opposition BJP councillors, who have been on an indefinite protest over a fund misappropriation issue, attempt to block the Mayor and the councillors of the ruling LDF from reaching the council hall. Despite this, the meeting went ahead under police protection, and the agenda items were passed within a few minutes
Dramatic scenes played out yet again in the city Corporation council hall on Friday with the councillors of the Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), who had been on an indefinite protest over a fund misappropriation issue, attempting to block the Mayor and the councillors of the ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF) from reaching the hall. Despite this, the meeting went ahead under police protection, and the agenda items were passed within a few minutes.
Before the council meeting began in the afternoon, the BJP councillors, who had been staying inside the hall for the past several days as part of the protest, laid down along the entry points in an attempt to block the ruling party councillors from entering the hall. However, Mayor Arya Rajendran and the councillors managed to enter, with some of them even forced to jump over the councillors lying on the ground.