The vaccine is a choice, not a compulsion. Public transport is a public right. You cannot deny public transport to those who are not vaccinated — Senior Citizen Passenger Committee member Mansoor Umer Darvesh from Jogeshwari has sparked a debate, by stating this in a letter to the Chief Minister’s Office and the railway bosses.

Sixty two-year-old Darvesh, a member representing the official railway passenger body of Western Railway Mumbai’s Divisional Railway Users’ Consultative Committee, said, “The decision taken by Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray that those who have taken both the doses of vaccines and completed 14 days after taking the second dose, can travel on Mumbai local trains is totally wrong. Taking vaccines is our personal decision, even the Supreme Court has said in one of its orders that you cannot compel anyone to take a vaccine. Hence it should not be forced for travel for living.”