It was a free-for-all during the first 10 to 15 minutes of the council meeting at Madurai Corporation on Tuesday.

Soon after Mayor Indrani Pon Vasanth began the session by reading out a Thirukkural couplet—a customary practice before council proceedings — AIADMK members, led by their floor leader Solai Raja, rose from their seats and shouted slogans demanding her resignation.