India, March 17 -- A fresh disagreement erupted at the BMC on Monday after Kishori Pednekar, leader of the opposition (LOP), wrote to the civic administration seeking deployment of security personnel outside her office chamber, a demand that Mumbai Mayor Ritu Tawde has termed "invalid".

Pednekar, a Shiv Sena (UBT) leader, who was recently elected LOP in the civic body, wrote a letter to municipal commissioner Bhushan Gagrani, requesting security arrangements outside her chamber. Stating that she received a large number of visitors daily, she referred to a recent incident in which an individual entered her office chamber and raised a ruckus. Such incidents needed to be prevented, she said, and therefore she wanted adequate security arrang...