A political war broke out in the BMC on Tuesday after an alleged objectionable remark by BJP MLA Ashish Shelar against Mumbai Mayor Kishori Pednekar. Pednekar has written a letter to Maharashtra Home Minister Dilip Valse Patil, complaining about the issue. Shelar allegedly made the remark after she visited the survivors of the Worli gas cylinder blast.  On Monday, the State Women’s Commission also objected to the remark and directed the commissioner of police, Mumbai, to submit a report on the matter.

In the letter to the minister, Pednekar claimed that Shelar, in a press conference regarding the Worli gas cylinder blast on December 4, said, “The Mumbai Mayor visited [those injured in the blast] after 72 hours of the incident. Where were you [the mayor] sleeping for these many hours?"