India, April 17 -- Mayor Ritu Tawde on Thursday announced that general body meetings would be telecast live on the BMC's YouTube channel, @MyBMCMyMumbai. She said that this would help citizens see how their elected representatives raised issues in the civic body.

Although the BMC had been working on live-telecasting the proceedings for some time, its official announcement to stream them on YouTube was allegedly expedited after a significant uproar at the general body meeting over alleged remarks on Bal Thackeray made by opposition leader Kishori Pednekar on Thursday.

Pednekar made these remarks while speaking on a point of order raised by former mayor Vishakha Raut about the lack of protocol to honour the mayor in public functions. She ...