Daijiworld News Network - Mangalore (MB)
Pics Dayanand Kukkaje
Mangalore, Nov 29: As widely expected, the city corporation meeting on Wednesday, November 29 afternoon witnessed unruly scenes which finally led to adjournment of the proceedings by the mayor.
Former national powerlifter and former mayor Purandardas Kulur protesting in front of his seat occupied by Karate champion Kavita Sanil
Two ruling Congress party members, James D'Souza and Kavita Sanil, had been expelled from the party for violating party whip during the standing committee elections, and accordingly they had been allotted separate seats away from the ruling benches.
Scenes of high drama
However, as also expected, they again defied their party's and official stand that they could not occupy their originally allotted seats. Since they refused to budge from their chairs, group D workers of the city corporation, temporarily sporting while uniforms and makeshift identity cards, were pressed into service as improvised marshalls.
To add to the drama, the opposition BJP members, formed a human shield and barricade against the marshalls and prevented them from physically moved the two members of the house.
Matters got still more complicated, in the meantime, with former mayor Purandardas Kulur, a national power-lifter, protesting against his chair being occupied by expelled member Kavita Sanil, a Karate champion. He stood in front of her for some time and also rushed to the well of the house to register his protest.
He even commented that he was being ill-treated possibly because he belonged to the scheduled caste. In all these high-voltage proceedings, the agends could not be implemented and the mayor was forced to adjourn the house indefinitely.
It is for the second time that the house was adjourned without taking up any matter after mayor Vijaya Arun took over recently.
Throwing all decorum to the winds, an opposition member was seen making a somersault inside the house. With only a few months left of the tenure of the present house, it was clear that nobody was interested in the welfare of the city and most of them were preparing for the next year's city election, said political observers.