Woman councillor slaps opposition leader at Salem council meet

SALEM: High drama was witnessed at the Council meeting of the Salem City Municipal Corporation on Thursday as a scuffle broke out between DMK and AIADMK councillors. During a heated argument, DMK’s 45th ward Councillor S Sugashini slapped the opposition council leader and AIADMK 36th ward Councillor N Yadavamoorthi.

The meeting took acrimonious turn as Opposition leader Yadavamoorthi alleged that building permissions were being issued in an unfair manner and tenders were being awarded only to those close to the local minister (R Rajendran, who is the minister for tourism.)

Riled, DMK councillors stood up and had an altercation with Yadavamoorthi. Some DMK councillors threw papers at him. DMK councillor Sugashini got up and went to argue with Yadavamoorthi. During the exchange of words, Sugashini slapped Yadavamoorthi on the face, leading to another bout of commotion between the councillors of AIADMK and DMK for a few minutes.