mumbai city mayor and shiv sena corporator kishori pednekar tested positive for covid19 on thursday padnekar is asymptomatic and in home isolation meanwhile bjp called an urgent meeting of the corporator and brought a noconfidence motion against the mayor for favouring her son to get bmc contacton thursday afternoon pednekar tweeted that she isolated herself and requested those who came in her close contact to take care the mayors family members also get tested and there is no clarity about their reportpednekar stated in the tweet that she got tested through antigen testing and the report came positive doctors suggested her for home isolation pednekar was very active during the pandemic she was regularly visiting hospitals hotspots to encourage bmc staff in april she even visited byl nair hospital in nurse uniform and tn medical college interacted with nursing students helping to manage covid patients she worked as a nurse at the jawaharlal nehru port trust hospital in uran between 1993 and 2002 before her entry into politics shiv sena is the ruling party in the bmcrecently pednekar landed into controversy after it was alleged that the bmc awarded a contract to manage a covid care centre at mahalaxmi to her sons company bjp alleged that it was a conflict of interest the mayor had denied the allegation of helping her son for the contract