Aarey Is Known As 'Chota Kashmir', Now It Has Become Like One: Netizens After Section 144 Imposition
Protests are erupting both online and offline after the Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation Limited (MMRCL) began cutting of hundreds of trees in the Aarey Colony where a proposed car shed is to be set up.
The MMRCL began the cutting of trees on Friday night to clear the land.
But the action has not gone down well with the environmentalists who had been campaigning to save the greenery, often referred to as the lungs of Mumbai.
As the protests began gaining momentum there was a massive deployment of police to blockade the area and Section 144 has been imposed there.
#SaveAarey A great salute to those who stood for these trees. If trees can speak, they would curse us for generations. Time to take all those who support this car shed on #Aarey colony to elementary school. Don't give up. Let's raise our voice even louder than before. #fayedsouza pic.twitter.com/hYmjFnL2dV
¡ª Jayakumar (@ngu_jay) October 5, 2019
?When the Govt conducts Surgical Strikes on Mumbai¡¯s lungs itself! Well done ?#SaveAarey #SaveAareyForest pic.twitter.com/p2AXtow0ig
¡ª Abhivyakti Group (@AbhivyaktiGroup) October 5, 2019
A FEW NUMBERS THAT SHOULD WORRY U-OVER 2700+TREES ARE IN THE PROCESS OF BEING CHOPPED DOWN.OVER 800 TREES HAVE ALREADY BEEN CHOPPED.OVER 100 YOUTH & ACTIVISTS ARE ILLEGALLY BEATEN,ARRESTED,DETAINED.
¡ª Brishti Chanda (@ChandaBrishti) October 5, 2019
SECTION 144 IMPOSED.
WHAT DO U VALUE MORE, MUMBAI?BREATHS OR METRO?#SaveAarey pic.twitter.com/BCINOT3f6S
We are expediting our extinction!
¡ª Anupam | ????? (@AnupamConnects) October 4, 2019
In a city prone to floods during monsoon rains and at a time when #ClimateStrike has captured global narrative, it is painful to see 2646 trees being cut in #AareyForest, considered Mumbai's green lung and home to 30 tribal villages.#SaveAarey pic.twitter.com/IJxjIglrAm
Hundreds of Mumbaikars have gathered to stop the massacre of #AareyForest and facing the wrath of the police.
¡ª Abhijeet Dipke (@abhijeet_dipke) October 4, 2019
Where's @AUThackeray who promised that he won't allow cutting down even a single tree?#SaveAarey pic.twitter.com/zbaHOLa0LW
Update: Aarey activists including young students, women & housewives have been lathicharged TWICE by the police.
¡ª Aditya Paul (@adityampaul) October 4, 2019
The police is completely non-cooperative.#SaveAareyForest #SaveAareySaveMumbai #SaveAarey https://t.co/sojNTPu5rg
Urgent request to Mumbaikars:
¡ª Jignesh Mevani (@jigneshmevani80) October 4, 2019
Authorities have already started cutting trees in Aarey after the order passed by the BHC today. Citizens are reaching Aaarey forest to stop this. I request Mumbaikars to reach and resist this move right now. #SaveAareyForest #SaveAarey pic.twitter.com/Ng5Yfv61gu
Such a pleasant sight for PM @narendramodi & @Dev_Fadnavis
¡ª Rishav Ranjan (@rishav_ranjan18) October 4, 2019
Go around the world and speak of Climate Change but when you return start clearing off forests and trees.
Horrific Scenes from Aarey Forest in Mumbai after HC's decision. @MumbaiPolice Please take a note and #SaveAarey pic.twitter.com/VJ917eW40u
Where humans have no value, how can trees get justice? #AareyForest pic.twitter.com/3Z13hGG9Wj
¡ª Kating Kaapi (@KaapiKating) October 5, 2019
If you are doing the right thing BMC, why stop us? Let us go in and see you do the right thing? #AareyForest #SaveAarey pic.twitter.com/eGnfqCv6jZ
¡ª Varsha (@varshapoddar94) October 5, 2019
The @ShivSena ¡®s @sheetalmhatre1 ji & Shubha Raul ji at Aarey. Even @prabhu_suneel ji has been standing up for it with the citizens. Wonder why @MumbaiMetro3 is treating Mumbaikars like criminals and not listening to sensible demand of sustainable development. https://t.co/ZdjF8ttKTk
¡ª Aaditya Thackeray (@AUThackeray) October 4, 2019
Save Aarey #AareyForest #bmc #Mumbai #SaveAarey #AareyColony pic.twitter.com/n9NnhwY1mo
¡ª Akshay Tyagi (@imakshay01) October 5, 2019
Some 2600 trees in Aarey Colony as set to be cut down to clear land for the construction of a car shed as part of the Mumbai Metro project.
Bobins Abraham is the Assistant News Editor at Indiatimes. He has more than twelve years of experience in TV and digital journalism. An avid student of history and geopolitics, he is a conservationist and environmentalist at heart. He writes on environment, sustainability, human-animal conflict and more.
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