A 70-year-old man sat on a waterlogged road in Vasai for four hours to protest against what he claimed was the abysmal infrastructure of the Vasai Virar City Municipal Corporation (VVCMC). He claimed he had been complaining to officials about nullah cleaning for years, to no avail.

In addition, his daughter claimed that the concrete base of an electric pole is choking the nullah because of which water flows into their ground floor home every monsoon. The family cited damage to property and unhygienic living conditions. Officials were unavailable to comment on the matter.