India, July 25 -- The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) during a special session on Thursday constituted 12 special and 11 ad-hoc committees, after the nominations for all were declared to be valid. The session, however, was adjourned soon after Aam Aadmi Party councillors staged a protest against the reduction of members in the Welfare of Scheduled Castes and Implementation of Scheduled Castes Candidates Quota ad-hoc committee.

Leader of Opposition in the MCD, Ankush Narang, had earlier claimed that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had reduced the number of members in the scheduled caste committee from 35 to 21 in order to ensure that the committee's chairman is from the BJP.

Protesting against the same, AAP councillors held up plac...