‘AAP supporters threatened councillor’

The Congress party has alleged that supporters of the newly-elected Aam Aadmi Party councillor Mohammad Sadiq in the North Delhi Municipal Corporation threatened one of its councillors and misbehaved with female councillors.

The NDMC Leader of Opposition, Mukesh Goel, said the AAP supporters, who were allowed inside the House by mayor to felicitate newly-elected members of the ruling party and along with supporters of other new members, threatened Congress members with dire consequences and misbehaved with party’s women councillors.

Mr Sadiq’s supporters and other three newly-elected councillors witnessed oath-taking ceremony of their leaders.

Mr Sadiq and other three newly-elected councillors, one from Congress, Ashok Bhardwaj, and two from the BJP, Dr Mahender Nagpal and Narender Mohan Bhandari, on Monday took oath as members of the NDMC in a special meeting called to discuss the preventive measures initiated to control vector-borne diseases, with special emphasis on dengue.

Even before the start of the meeting, supporters of newly-elected members and majority of them are of AAP workers from Mr Sadiq’s wards occupied seats in the House. Staff from municipal secretary’s office asked everyone other then those who authorised to sit in the House to take seat in the visitors’ gallery.

Mr Goel and Leader of the House, Vijay Prakash Pandey, requested mayor Sanjeev Nayyar to not allow any unauthorised persons inside the house during any meeting. Despite unanimous requests from treasury and Opposition benches, Mr Nayyar said that supporters and family members of four councillors were allowed inside the House for five minutes.

As soon as the supporters were allowed inside meeting hall after completion of oath ceremony, they went to the well of the House, which was objected to by the some members.

Congress councillor Parma Bhai Solanki claimed that AAP workers accompanying Mr Sadiq had threatened him with dire consequences.

Mr Goel said that some of the women councillors of the Congress were pushed and abused.

“Situation was completely out of control and it happened only due to the mayor. I am writing to the mayor, demanding appropriate action on the issue,” added Mr Goel.