Speaking at a joint meeting called by the committee and the Young Women's Christian Association, Dharmadhikari said a delegation of the committee will also meet Chief Minister Narayan Rane on Monday to make a demand for the immediate dissolution of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC).

Dharmadhikari said, ``The petition will pray to the court that the resolution for the removal of municipal commissioner Arun Bhatia was unconstitutional and therefore it should be cancelled.''

The committee, meanwhile, will undertake a mass movement by organising signature campaigns and holding public meetings, for the demand of dissolution of the PMC. The signature campaigns will state that the citizens have lost confidence in the corporators and therefore the PMC should be dissolved, hesaid.

Dharmadhikari opined that it was in a very uncultured and insulting manner that Bhatia was removed from the city which is the cultural capital of the State. ``It goes on to establish what kind of people have been elected as corporators,'' he added.

Maintaining that there has been a weak response from the people for the second stage of the agitation demanding dissolution of the PMC, Dharmadhikari said people have not realised that a conspiracy for removing Bhatia was made when he should have been the municipal commissioner for three years.

Dharmadhikari said, once the demand for dissolution is made by the citizens, it is mandatory, under the BPMC Act, for the government to issue a show-cause notice to the PMC and then a three-day inquiry will follow. At this stage, citizens can have their say, either openly or by remaining anonymous, regarding various irregularities in the PMC and other civic complaints. This will be a logical counter-attack by the citizens, Dharmadhikari said.