Overview

• The Municipal Corporation of Delhi deferred voting for the Scheduled Caste Welfare and Quota Implementation committee pending a new date after BJP officials accused AAP councillors of snatching ballot papers, attempting to break ballot boxes and clashing with security.
• BJP councillors secured both chairperson and vice-chairperson posts in eight other ad-hoc and statutory committees, including key education and rural development panels.
• Leader of Opposition Ankush Narang charged that the BJP weakened Dalit representation by cutting the SC Welfare Committee’s membership from 35 to 21 seats.
• AAP spokespersons maintain their protest was peaceful and allege they were manhandled by guards; Mayor Sardar Raja Iqbal Singh dismisses those claims as baseless and accuses the party of disrupting constitutional order.
• The AAP accused the BJP of staging publicity stunts by distributing Teachers’ Welfare Fund benefits alongside compassionate appointment letters for initiatives launched under the previous AAP government; the mayor countered that his administration immediately addressed long-pending welfare cases.