The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) council meetings, held once a month, will now have police marshals in attendance, almost two months after a meeting ended in fisticuffs over the hike in property tax.
A resolution was passed to this effect in the last month’s meeting amid protests from the Opposition, which has said it will fight this new development.
On April 29, elected representatives of the BBMP council came to blows at the monthly meeting. The Mayor B.N. Manjunath Reddy was prevented from exiting the council hall.