The budget session of the Indore Municipal Corporation (IMC) on Tuesday witnessed uproar after Muslin women councillors of the Opposition Congress paid homage to Iran’s slain supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Hosseini Khamenei and alleged that the US and Israel killed him by treachery.
Congress Corporator Rubina Iqbal Khan said in her homage address that Khamenei was martyred through deception by the US and Israel. She also paid homage to young girls killed in an air strike on Iranian school.
Similarly, Congress Councillor Fauzia Sheikh Aleem paid homage to Khamenei and offered her condolences to his family. She claimed that the deceased leader was always a friend and guardian for India in times of need.
Raising objection to it Corporators of the ruling BJP and chanted ‘Jai Shree Ram’.
Meanwhile, it was suggested in the house to provide employment on outsourced basis to eligible family members of the deceased in the large-scale drinking water tragedy at Bhagirathpura in the city.