Mumbai: Shiv Sena (UBT) MLA Aaditya Thackeray said he will lead a protest march of resident groups against the alleged takeover of three open spaces in Juhu and Andheri West by a Vile Parle trust led by BJP MLC Amrish Patel.He appealed to Mumbaikars, political parties and associations/housing societies/ALMs to join the protest.Thackeray said locals had suddenly been deemed “trespassers” by the BJP MLC-run trust.“…BJP wants Mumbai’s open spaces to be grabbed by its friends to be constructed on… 16 acres of Mumbai’s open spaces are being handed over to a BJP MLC, 2 of them free and 1 at a paltry sum. CM stands with the trust, not with Mumbai. What a shame,” he said in a post on X.Last month, resident groups and activists wrote to CM Devendra Fadnavis seeking cancellation of the allotment of three Mhada and BMC plots to Shri Vile Parle Kelawani Mandal. They sought that the plots be kept open and accessible to the public at all times in line with Development Plan 2034.Patel has said there were no irregularities in the allotments and sports facilities will be built on the plots.
