A day after the BMC and Shiv Sena Minister Aaditya Thackeray tweeted about achieving a milestone in the Coastal Road project, BJP legislator Ashish Shelar on Monday alleged Rs 1,000 crore corruption in the project. The MLA has asked the chief minister to appoint a special investigation team to probe into the alleged irregularities. Shelar’s party was instrumental in helping BMC get all the permissions for the Rs 12,700-crore project when the Shiv Sena and BJP were in alliance.

Shelar told the media that fraud and illegalities of Rs 684 crore for 33 lakh tonnes of reclamation filling material have been observed and claimed that the details are tied to the project’s Package 1 worth Rs 5,290.54 crore for October 2018 to December 2020. “If the overall Coastal Road project cost including Package 2 and Package 4 of the tenders are also accounted for, this scam could well be over Rs 1,000 crore,” he said.