Congress leader and Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, arrived in Mumbai during the early hours of Saturday. As soon as the LoP landed in Mumbai, BJP workers staged a black-flag protest, calling it a response to the Youth Congress's protest at the AI Summit.

Gandhi landed at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport in the morning and travelled by road to Bhiwandi in neighbouring Thane district to appear before a court in the 2014 defamation case, reported PTI.