Raj Thackeray warned that “not a single brick will be permitted to be placed for the bullet train in Mumbai” until the road and rail network of local railways was made better.

Stampedes will continue to take place in Mumbai till hordes of emigrants keep pouring into the city, MNS chief Raj Thackeray said here, a day after 22 people were killed in a crush at Elphinstone railway station.

 “There has been a collapse of infrastructure conveniences due to the emigrant arrival from other regions.”

Saying that he traveled in Mumbai suburban trains for two years while studying arts at the Sir J J College in Mumbai, Mr. Thackeray said, “What you call the famed spirit of Mumbai which triumphs over such tragedies is actually hopelessness in face of such calamities.”

Mr. Thackeray said his party leader Bala Nandgaonkar had written to authorities for building a new bridge at the stampede spot but no action was taken on his suggestion and instead Nandgaonkar was told to approach the MMRDA.

The Kakodkar committee had proposed an expenditure of Rs one lakh crore to improve the railway infrastructure but nobody acted on it, he claimed.

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