Amidst the allegation and counter-allegation between the treasury and opposition benches, the North Corporation on Thursday passed its agenda.

Both ruling BJP and opposition Congress accused each other of corruption. Even before the House assembled at 2 pm, Congress councillors held a sit-in, demanding payment of pending old age pensions, claiming that nearly 80,000 pensioners have not been paid their monthly pensions by the municipal corporation for over a year.

The meeting began amid shouting of slogans and protest by the opposition councillors who accused the Mayor Ravinder Gupta of "corruption" and "collusion" with building mafia responsible for illegal constructions in the municipal area.

During the meeting, BJP councillors produced a letter allegedly written by Congress leader and former Delhi minister Mangat Ram Singhal to the Mayor complaining against "unauthorised" construction in ward no 13 in "connivance" with ward councillor.

The leader of opposition Mukesh Goel, who represents ward no 13, refuted the charge that he was involved in unauthorised construction and had taken Rs 20 lakh for it.

"Singhal has been my rival for a long time and it is known to everybody," Goel said while accusing Gupta of having "connections" with the building mafia.

Goel demanded a CBI enquiry into the allegations against him as well as his allegations against the Mayor, adding that the charge against him was aimed at "maligning" his image.

Amid continued shouting and sloganeering, the Mayor conducting the meeting adjourned it for ten minutes. Soon after it resumed, the opposition councillors came before his chair. Faced with relentless noisy scenes, the Mayor announced the confirmation of agenda and end of the House meeting.

 Later, the Mayor told reporters that he was ready to face any enquiry against him while denying any connection with those involved in "unauthorised" constructions."The charges against me are baseless and without any proof. I will quit the post immediately if any charge against me is proved," he said.

The general meeting of the North Corporation House was held at the nearly 150-year-old iconic Town Hall, headquarter of erstwhile unified Municipal Corporation of Delhi, as an initiative to stress its heritage value, although opposition councillors had termed the move by the Mayor as an "extravagant" step by the financially ill civic body.