Amid allegations of a scam in concretisation of city roads, Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said that the Shiv Sena (UBT), the ruling party in the BMC for almost three decades, was concerned about not being able to make money through “corruption”. 

“People who have spent their lifetimes scamming citizens are upset for the first time. They fear that if the roads are made of concrete, it won’t be possible to rework on them for the next 40 years. It was a practice then to lay bitumen (asphalt) roads every year. And, a probe found that some 200 (bitumen) roads did not have the inner layer. The people who have done such jobs are now concerned that concrete roads will pull the shutters down on their 25-year-old dukandari (shop),” the deputy CM said after reviewing the preparedness for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s public rally to be held at the BKC ground on Thursday.