Mumbai Mayor Kishori Pednekar has triggered a controversy by using objectionable language against a Twitter user who posed a question about the status of the city civic body's global Covid-19 vaccine supply contract.
Mumbai Mayor Kishori Pednekar s controversial tweet and unusual clarification
Mirror Online / Updated: Jun 3, 2021, 13:42 IST
Mayor Kishori Pednekar.
Amid the ongoing war of words between the ruling Shiv Sena and the Opposition over the purchase of vaccines by the BMC,
Mumbai Mayor Kishori Pednekar has sparked a fresh controversy.
The
Mayor allegedly used objectionable language against a Twitter user who posed a question about the city civic body s global COVID-19 vaccine supply
contract while commenting on her video posted by a Marathi news channel.
Soon after the tweet went viral, it was deleted.
The
BJP also slammed the Mayor for her remarks.
Kishori Pednekar said while she had her mobile phone to a party activist who posted the tweet.
Mumbai:
Mumbai Mayor Kishori Pednekar on Thursday said a tweet from her Twitter handle which had triggered a controversy over use of objectionable language was posted by a Shiv Sena activist in a fit of anger .
Talking to reporters, Ms Pednekar, a Shiv Sena leader, said while she was attending a function in the Bandra-Kurla Complex in Mumbai on Wednesday, her mobile phone was handed over to a party activist who posted the tweet.
However, when she got her phone back, she immediately deleted the tweet, the mayor said.
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