A special meeting of the Thiruvananthapuram city Corporation council, convened to discuss the issue of encroachments and commercial establishments functioning without license, witnessed dramatic scenes over an alleged eviction notice issued to a Sree Narayana Guru mandiram at Chenthi.
Opening the discussions, M.R. Gopan, councillor of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), accused the Corporation of sending a demolition notice to the cultural organisation running the centre.
However, when Mayor Arya Rajendran requested him to submit the notice he had produced to raise the allegation, he was initially reluctant to do the same. Later, he forwarded a copy through Whatsapp. Reading out the text, Ms.Rajendran said that it was merely a notice asking the cultural organisation to present their side of the story, but Mr.Gopan had presented it to the council as an eviction notice.
