Udupi, (DHNS): The general body meeting of the Udupi City Municipal Council (CMC) was adjourned amid unprecedented scenes of a man who entered the meeting without permission being manhandled, here on Thursday.

It all began with Congress councillor Geeta Shet saying at the meeting that she was not being supported by fellow ruling Congress councillors on matters relating to her Kadiyali ward. She was upset with a nominated Congress councillor, Satish, over the issue of inauguration of a road.

She then submitted her resignation as councillor to CMC president Meenaksh Bannanje. Ms. Bannanje tried to pacify her and said that her grievance could be discussed later as it had nothing to do with administrative matters. But Ms. Shet was unrelenting and said that she would call a man from her ward who will clarify on the inauguration of the road. Meanwhile, Congress councillors Ramesh Kanchan and Janardhan Bhandarkar demanded clarification on drinking water and desilting issues. But the Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) councillors objected to this.

This led to a shouting match between Congress and BJP councillors. In the meantime, the man, Ronnie D’mello, whom Ms. Shet had called, entered the general body meeting hall. The Congress councillors got infuriated at this. They manhandled him and pushed him out of the meeting hall and there was pandemonium in the House with both the Congress and BJP councillors trading charges against one another. In the midst of this, Ms. Bannanje said that the agenda had been passed by a majority and adjourned the meeting.

Later, Dinakar Shetty Herga, BJP councillor, told presspersons that the ruling Congress was responsible for the unprecedented shameful scenes witnessed in the CMC meeting.

Meanwhile, Ms. Bannanje told presspersons that the BJP was not interested in allowing any CMC meeting to proceed smoothly.