Chandigarh, Oct. 7 -- A day after city mayor Harpreet Kaur Babla wrote a letter to Punjab governor and UT administrator Gulab Chand Kataria and sought immediate action against four councillors for what she described as "gross misconduct, flagrant disruption, and unprecedented indecorum" during the general house meeting of the municipal corporation, the opposition councillors protested against the mayor on Monday.

Opposition councillors, who were marshalled out including senior deputy mayor Jasbir Singh Bunty, deputy mayor Taruna Mehta, Sachin Galav and Prem Lata-staged a sit-in outside mayor office and said the mayor's letter to the UT administrator is unconstitutional and unauthorised.

Chandigarh AAP president Vijay Pal Singh said that...