Delhi: North civic body meeting at Town Hall after five years ends in minutes as charges fly

But as soon as the meeting started, Congress councillors disrupted the session over the issue of delayed pension and allegations of corruption against the mayor.

Congress leaders claimed that the party had received an anonymous letter, alleging that the mayor had “helped construct several unauthorised structures in his ward”. Party councillors, wearing black bands and chanting slogans against the Mayor and the BJP, gathered at the well of the meeting hall.

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The ruckus continued after the BJP presented a letter in the meeting, alleging that Congress councillor and leader of the opposition Mukesh Goel had accepted a bribe to allow illegal construction in his ward.

Both the Congress and the BJP sought a CBI probe to look into each other’s allegations while both the mayor and the leader of the opposition offered to quit.

The Congress had earlier opposed the meeting at Town Hall, claiming that the move will mean “unnecessary expenditure” for the corporation, while the BJP had claimed that not even Re 1 had been spent on the endevaour.