Mumbai: ‘We will save Powai lake, just like Aarey’

MUMBAI: Activists staged a demonstration at

Powai lake

on Sunday, pressing on with their demand that BMC stop all work on the cycle track around the water body.

They urged state environment minister Aaditya Thackeray to scrap the project. One of the slogans was, ‘Aarey humne jeeta hai;

Powai

bhi hum jeetenge!’ (‘We saved trees at

Aarey

Colony; we will also

save Powai lake

’). Aaditya was a prominent campaigner for the Save Aarey movement that sought the removal of the metro car shed. AAP members were also present.