Amid people praising the Sanjay Gandhi National Park authorities for clearing encroachment from the 100-acre area of Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP) close to Aarey Milk Colony, advocate Akhilesh Chaubey, Secretary of BJP Maharashtra unit, has written a letter to state Environment Minister Aaditya Thackeray about increasing number of illegal encroachments in Aarey Milk Colony jurisdiction next to Vanrai police station. 

Chaubey told mid-day, “A lot of illegal construction and encroachment is going on in Aarey forest, also known as the lungs of Mumbai. What is also shocking is the fact that the boundary wall of Aarey administration has been broken and hutments have been constructed. Local Shiv Sena MLA Ravindra Waikar seems to be turning a blind eye to this illegal activity.”