Mumbai sources stated that the Shiv Sena-Congress-NCP front is likely to stop key projects like the Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train project. A Sena official told “The alliance, which will come to power in Maharashtra after a week of high drama in a state that has been without a government for more than a month, will also scrap the Nanar oil refinery and not cut any more trees at Mumbai's Aarey Colony, and it will, instead, focus on farmers' welfare a key election issue”.
Party spokesman Ms Kayande said "However many trees the MMRCL (Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation Limited) has cut, going forward not one more will be cut. Uddhav Thackerayji said this... this government will work for the people". She added "Nothing has changed so far as the Nanar project is concerned. From what I know this issue has been decided and it has been closed. As far as the bullet train is concerned, and we had decided earlier as well. If it is causing so much harm to so many people, why should we go ahead with it?".
Moreover the Sena-Congress-NCP alliance, which calls itself Maha Vikas Aghadi and has promised to "take maharashtra forward", has reservations over the cost of the bullet train project and its returns, something it had indicated last week. Earlier PM modi and Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe had jointly laid the foundation stone for the Bullet train project in ahmedabad in september 2017. japan is providing india with a loan of Rs. 88,000 crore for the project at a minimal interest of 0.1 per cent.
