Yet another CMC council meeting ends amid chaos

BJD councillors of the Cuttack Municipal Corporation allegedly physically assaulted their Congress and BJP counterparts during the civic body's monthly council meeting here today.
Disrupting a discussion on the acute dengue situation in the city, the corporators broke into a scuffle after a heated exchange.
This is the fourth consecutive monthly council meeting of the civic body ending amid disruption without transacting any business.
Two councillors, one each from Congress and BJP, registered separate police complaints at the Purighat police station accusing the rival party members of criminal misconduct.
"We have already registered two cases in this regard", the Purighat police inspector Tapas Chandra Pradhan said.

Congress corporator Arun Kumar Sethy in his police complaint has named five BJD corporators alleging that the ruling party members slapped and kicked him using remarks against his caste.
Similarly, Itishree Das, one of the named accused in Sethy's complaint, has also filed a counter case against the latter, the police said.