Chandigarh, May 2 -- A day after table agendas worth over Rs.100 crore were 'hastily' passed during the General House meeting of the Chandigarh municipal corporation (MC), a political storm erupted on Friday with councillors of both Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) accusing the Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled MC of destroying the democratic process and allegedly misusing taxpayers' money.

The MC House meeting on Thursday had started at 11.15 am with a welcome address by mayor Saurabh Joshi. MC officials were in full attendance with the required quorum met. However, it was only at 3.40 pm that the minutes of the previous meetings could be confirmed as councillors had multiple objections to the same. All the preceding hours were consume...