The Maharashtra Congress Monday staged various protests in different parts of the state in response to the Bharat Bandh called by the party's central leadership against rising fuel prices. In Mumbai, Maharashtra Congress chief Ashok Chavan led the party's protest, travelling by a local train to Andheri railway station before staging a rail roko there. Congress leaders Manikrao Thakare, Naseem Khan and others joined Chavan during the protest as party workers raised slogans against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government. The opposition party also hit out at the Devendra Fadnavis-led BJP government in Maharashtra.

The shutdown is backed by other opposition parties such as the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), the Raj Thackeray-led Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS), the Samajwadi Party, the Peasants and Workers' Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP).