A complaint under the Prevention of Atrocities Act has been made against Surat Mayor Savita Sharda for her alleged remarks against former Uttar Pradesh chief minister in a newspaper column.

Reacting to the developments in Parliament on April 17, she is quoted as saying in a vernacular daily that ``Mayawati is herself a nagin.'' However, it is the aakhre tene jaat batavi (literally, that reflects on her caste; and figuratively, she has shown her true colours) attributed to the mayor that has raised the hackles of local BSP worker Virendrakumar Dudhnath Jaiswar.

In a complaint to the police commissioner, Jaiswar said by using such words, the mayor had insulted the party and demanded her suspension and prosecution.Sharda told Express Newsline that she had never used the sentence ``aakhre tene...'' when she was interviewed by the reporter of the vernacular daily. ``I did call her a poisonous nagin for she had said the BJP and the Congress were Naagnath and Saapnath to her and that she would keep away from both. Yet, hours later, she voted for the Congress''.