Just days after his official swearing-in ceremony, Maharashtra’s new chief minister Eknath Shinde and his deputy Devendra Fadnavis made the first big call, raising many eyebrows. In the first Cabinet meeting on June 30, the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government’s decision to shift the Metro 3 shed from Aarey, Mumbai, was overturned. The move was like rubbing salt on Uddhav Thackeray’s wounds, as this entire project is close to his heart and was being supervised by his son and Yuva Sena president Aaditya Thackeray.
Authorities from the Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation Limited (MMRCL), a joint venture between the Centre and the Maharashtra government, which is in charge of the project, cut down 2,656 trees in the location for the construction of the car shed in October 2019. The Tree Authority of the BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation authorised the cutting down of the trees.
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