SANGRUR, Oct. 11 -- Eight Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) councillors in Sangrur municipal council, who had resigned from the party on Thursday, met deputy commissioner Rahul Chaba seeking his intervention to speed up development work in the city.

On Friday, two independent councillors also withdrew their support from the AAP-controlled municipal council, alleging president Bhupinder Singh's was 'not cooperating' with regard to development works in the city.

On Thursday, eight councillors, including senior vice-president Preeti Jain and vice-president Krishan Kumar Vicky, had resigned from the party, reducing AAP to a minority in the 31-member House, which also includes the votes of two AAP MLAs, Sangrur's Narinder Kaur Bharaj and Sunam's Aman Ar...