“It’s all too tied up in Rohit,” Barro said. “It was all him and he’s going to be gone.”
Mahan, who has accused Chopra of micro-management, was asked to reconcile these statements with claims he has made regarding his own achievements on the council.
“The reality is that we have very different leadership styles. I don’t think that him micro-managing necessarily means I haven’t done anything,” he said.
The debate was co-sponsored by The Crimson and the Harvard Political Union.
—Staff writer Ebonie D. Hazle can be reached at hazle@fas.harvard.edu.