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MCD House adjourned after massive uproar over coaching centre deaths

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BJP Councillors protest inside the MCD House over the death of three civil services aspirants due to drowning at a coaching centre in Old Rajendra Nagar area, in New Delhi, Monday, July 29, 2024.

BJP Councillors protest inside the MCD House over the death of three civil services aspirants due to drowning at a coaching centre in Old Rajendra Nagar area, in New Delhi, Monday, July 29, 2024.

New Delhi: Opposition councillors on Monday trooped into the well of the MCD House on Monday protesting the Rajinder Nagar coaching centre deaths and demanding resignation of the mayor and Delhi chief minister over the incident.

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The BJP and Congress councillors also raised slogans and carried posters against the AAP-led Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD).

Amid the ruckus, the mayor adjourned the House even before it could begin and left the House.

After the adjournment, BJP councillors staged a protest on the fourth floor of the agency headquarters, demanding the mayor to resume the House.

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They also raised slogans against Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and demanded an inquiry into the deaths.

A heavy deployment of police force was seen at the Civic Centre at the agency headquarters.

The uproar erupted over the deaths of three UPSC aspirants, two females and a male, who were killed after the basement of Rau's IAS Study Circle in central Delhi's Old Rajinder Nagar area was flooded following heavy rains on Saturday.

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