Mumbai mayor Kishori Pednekar on Wednesday 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 on the social media platform.

"Tuzya Bapala" (to your father) replied Pednekar when a Twitter user asked "Contract Konala dila?" (To whom contract has been given?) while commenting on a Marathi news channel's tweet regarding the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation's (BMC) global tender on Covid-19 vaccine supply.