The BEST bus strike in Mumbai is set to enter Day 7 on Monday with no agreement in sight between the agitating workers and the management of the civic-run transport undertaking. The issue will now be taken up by the high court as the draft of demands was submitted by the trade union to the court-appointed committee led by the chief secretary on Saturday.

If the issue is not resolved, electricity union members of the BEST Undertaking have also threatened to join the strike and as many as 53 per cent of the staff remained absent from work on Saturday itself. One of the railways' biggest unions, the National Railway Mazdoor Sangh, has also expressed solidarity with the BEST strike and promised to join their protests if the strike is not resolved by Monday.