As the day-old Maharashtra government’s deputy CM announced that Aarey would most certainly be home to the Metro car depot, the city’s green activists met with various stakeholders of the Save Aarey movement to discuss the further strategy. Meanwhile, citizens, who had protested against the project before former chief minister Uddhav Thackeray moved it to Kanjurmarg, have warned of mass agitation.

Sumit Singh, a nature lover who participated in the protest before, said, “I am personally unhappy with the fact that the new government wants to bring back the car depot to Aarey Milk Colony. Aarey forest and the Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP) are green lungs of Mumbai. We will continue opposing the new government’s proposal to construct a car depot in Aarey, and protest, if needed.”