After Mumbai and Thane were flooded, on Wednesday the Shiv Sena has blamed encroachments along river banks for waterlogging.
According to the Hindustan Times, Shiv Sena has has blame the encroachments saying that it has effectively shirking the Mumbai and Thane civic bodies’ responsibility to clean drains and nullahs. In it's mouthpiece Saamana, the Sena said, “Why don’t we recognise that the slums and houses built in the coastal areas are encroachments? This time there was flooding in national park. Mithi and Dahisar rivers overflowed. Who are the ones encroaching on the banks of Mithi? It has become some people’s job to blame cleaning of drains. The nullahs, too, have been encroached upon and when civic workers go to remove them, they are attacked.”