The BJP on Friday alleged that AAP councillors had come prepared to disrupt oath of the aldermen (nominated councillors) and assaulted its members including women. In a joint press conference, party MPs Meenakshi Lekhi, Manoj Tiwari and Parvesh Verma alleged that women councillors of the BJP were "mobbed" and attacked by AAP councilors and six-seven councillors of the BJP were injured. Medico-legal case reports of two councillors - Sharad Kapoor and Kusumlata - were received, said Delhi BJP media relations cell co-incharge Vikram Mittal.
Lekhi alleged that the AAP councillors had pre-planned to disrupt the meeting to stop the oath of the ten aldermen appointed by the BJP. The AAP councillors protested against the oath administered to the aldermen as they saw it as a BJP ploy to give them the right to vote. The AAP had earlier said that the L-G had appointed persons with affiliation to the BJP as aldermen. The MCD House meeting was adjourned amid chaos with clashes between AAP and BJP councilors which began soon after the aldermen were being administered oath and the presiding officer started the proceedings.
"Some male councillors jostled with Inder Kaur and pulled her hair. She had a cut on her finger when she was attacked with something sharp. Our councillor Anita's finger also got cut when she reached there to save Kaur. They have also said that some AAP councillors had consumed liquor," Parvesh Verma said. The two women councillors Inder Kaur and Anita were present in the press conference. The West Delhi MP said the notification of the presiding officer had clearly mentioned that she will administer oath to all the councillors and she must have used her discretion to begin with pledge of the aldermen. It was a "black day" as the AAP councillors behaved like the goons and refused to follow the rules, Tiwari said."The AAP goons had come prepared to disrupt the meeting. They carried some sharp-edged objects with which they attacked the BJP councillors," he claimed. “If they have numbers why are they worried,” he added. Leader of Opposition in Delhi Assembly Ramvir Singh Bidhuri condemned the hooliganism committed by the councilors of the AAP, saying that the presiding officer Satya Sharma has been attacked by AAP councillors in a planned manner.
Bidhuri also demanded that a First Information Report (FIR) be lodged with the police for the hooliganism of the councillors. In reply to a question over AAP's allegation that the aldermen were being provided voting right, Lekhi said they were being simply administered oath and it was yet to be decided whether they will have voting right.
Delhi BJP working president Virendra Sachdeva who reached RML Hospital where party councillors were being provided treatment, said a police complaint will be lodged. The BJP leaders including Sachdeva and Leader of Opposition in Delhi Assembly Ramvir Bidhuri will sit on a protest outside Mahatma Gandhi's memorial at Rajghat, on Saturday morning.