A furious Aberdeen council leader claimed Glasgow escaped a harsher lockdown because it is a "Yes city".
Tory Douglas Lumsden suggested it all came down to independence and central belt bias in an angry backlash on social media after Nicola Sturgeon imposed restrictions on the city.
People in Glasgow, West Dunbartonshire and East Renfrewshire are not allowed to mix in each others' houses for two weeks in an attempt to curb the spread of lethal Covid-19.
But Lumsden - the co-leader of Aberdeen's administration - complained his city saw pubs and restaurants closed when an outbreak spread in the Granite City.
Responding on Twitter, Lumsden claimed: "Glasgow is a 'yes' city so escapes the lockdown Aberdeen had."
He urged Sturgeon to treat Glasgow the same as Aberdeen and demanded an explanation. He continued his tirade late into the night after Sturgeon imposed the new rules.
Lumsden continued: "What rubbish! Can the people of Glasgow not pass it on at the pub? Do Glasgow have super dooper anti covid restaurants?"
And he claimed: "The situation in Glasgow is worse, from what I have read it is community transmission, no links so even more reason to have a more widespread lockdown."
In a local Northsound radio interview on Wednesday morning he said: "It does seem rather unfair and a bit confusing.
"I think we've seen for a long time a huge central belt bias from the SNP Government. This just seems to add to that narrative."
This morning, the First Minister posted her own explanation of why the measures were taken in parts of the Greater Glasgow and Clyde health board region.
Sturgeon said "closing pubs would be an additional measure" which at the moment is not considered "proportionate".
She continued: "Our data suggests that spread in and between households is driving much of the transmission just now. That doesn't mean there are no cases in pubs etc - but unlike in Aberdeen, pub clusters don't appear, at this stage, to be main driver. That analysis has guided decisions."
The restriction follows 66 cases in the NHS region on Tuesday.
It is estimated the lockdown restrictions will affect more than 800,000 people - 633,120 in Glasgow, 95,530 in East Renfrewshire and 88,930 in West Dunbartonshire.
They lockdown will be in place for two weeks, but will be reviewed after a week and the First Minister warned that further measures could be applied if the situation does not improve.
Schools in the three council areas will continue to remain open as will shops, pubs and restaurants.
