Several politicians and activists, including the BJP’s ruling ally and Shiv Sena leader Aaditya Thackeray on Friday, 4 October reacted to the Bombay HC verdict on cutting of trees at Mumbai’s Aarey colony for the construction of Metro car shed and the reported felling of trees being initiated by authorities at the site.
The Bombay HC refused to declare Aarey Colony a forest area and also declined to quash a BMC decision allowing felling of over 2,600 trees in the suburban green zone for the construction of a metro car shed.
Thackeray took to Twitter to call the Aarey controversy “shameful and disgusting” and pointed out that the deforestation at the Mumbai colony for the construction of the Metro car shed stands against everything India said about the environment at the recent United Nations General Assembly (UNGA).