Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Aaditya Thackeray has claimed that the recent flash floods in Pune are due to the riverfront development project. In a post on X, Thackeray wrote that as a minister, he halted the project and instructed builders to replan it. Thackeray referred to the riverside construction project as a "blind destruction program" for Pune and its rivers, reported PTI. 

Aaditya Thackeray, in his social media post, said, "The flash floods in Pune weren’t because of anything else than the unplanned destruction of Pune at the hands of the regime- builder nexus, along with the riverfront development/ destruction program put into effect by an architect from Gujarat, wanting to copy paste the Sabarmati riverfront development model, without understanding the flow of Pune’s rivers."