From once being a 'Save Aarey' enthusiast who celebrating stalling of a metro project aimed at easing congestion, Rajdeep Sardesai is now sympathetic for local train commuters in Mumbai over the travails they have to face daily.
Recently, the MCZMA had cleared a proposal for one bridge that will require 48 trees to be cut. The Coastal Regulation Zone approval for 5 other bridges is pending.
The issue gained traction after videos emerged on January 22, wherein the Mumbai Police were seen manhandling an activist and pushing him into a police van for questioning the felling of the heritage tree
In India since 2014, things are not so simple. Because the vicious, hateful anti-Modi lobby will stand in the way of everything. Even the most obvious, practical decisions.
Japanese ambassador to India, Suzuki Satoshi in a letter dated February 17, 2021, wrote to Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray expressing concern over the expected ‘cash crunch’. The CM is yet to respond to it.