Mumbai: AAP protests against ongoing work on Powai-Vihar cycle track

Updated On: 14 October, 2021 08:36 AM IST | Mumbai | Hemal Ashar

Aam Aadmi Party slams lack of transparency around Powai-Vihar cycling track; secrecy and mystery over new construction

Protest at Deer park

When the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) was asked why it was merely protesting like common citizens rather than taking a stronger stand to oppose work on the ongoing Powai-Vihar cycle track, Ruben Mascarenhas, Working President, AAP Mumbai, said, “We do not have a political representative here otherwise we would have raised the issue in the House too.”

Very opaque

The AAP on Tuesday held a protest at the Deer Park, which they said is ground zero of the proposed cycling track along the Powai-Vihar Lakes. The AAP then followed that protest with a press conference at their South Mumbai office on Wednesday where they stated that the project was shrouded in “ambiguity especially about the aegis under which the project has been sanctioned, and by whom; and had, for long, continued the construction without any conclusive environmental impact assessment [EIA]—ignorant of ongoing protests from environmentalists and activists”.

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