BJP Protests On Delhi Streets As Face-Off With AAP Over Mayor Poll Continues. In Pics

Many leaders and employees of the Delhi BJP, led by their working president Virendra Sachdeva, raised slogans.

BJP activists raise slogans during a protest regarding clashes during MCD Mayor's election, near the residence of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, in New Delhi.

The "ruckus created by AAP councilors" at a meeting of the municipal corporation House last week prompted the Delhi BJP to stage a massive protest near Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's residence on Monday, according to PTI. ( Image Source: PTI )

Many leaders and employees of the Delhi BJP, led by their working president Virendra Sachdeva, raised slogans at the Aam Aadmi Party and its convener Kejriwal. ( Image Source: PTI )

They were stopped by police on their way to the chief minister's residence from the Chandgiram Akhara, which is close to Kejriwal's official residence. ( Image Source: PTI )

"What happened in the MCD House on January 6 was extremely shameful. The AAP councilors attacked BJP councilors including women. We are prepared to retaliate to the hooliganism of the AAP," Sachdeva said. ( Image Source: PTI )

Ramvir Singh Bidhuri, the opposition leader in the Delhi Assembly, claimed that the AAP councilors disregarded the Constitution by causing a commotion in the House of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) and preventing aldermen from taking their oaths. ( Image Source: PTI )

At the MCD House meeting on Friday, the AAP councilors opposed administering oaths to the ten aldermen appointed by the LG. In a tumultuous setting, the BJP councilors responded with two sides fighting and pushing one another. The House meeting was postponed without any elections for mayor, deputy mayor, or standing committee members. ( Image Source: PTI )