Maharashtra health minister Rajesh Tope on Thursday said the decision of whether to reopen Mumbai locals for people who are fully vaccinated will be taken in consultation with the railway authorities. Tope’s comment on Mumbai locals came as he announced further relaxation of Covid-19 restrictions in 25 districts of the state.
Mumbai suburban trains are open for a limited number of passengers. Passengers’ woes have now snowballed into a political issue and the BJP is threatening the government that its party workers will travel by local trains from August 2, if travel restrictions are not relaxed. Pressure to reopen Mumbai locals to fully vaccinated people has been mounting on the government from MNS too as Raj Thackeray wrote to Uddhav Thackeray stating that this restriction is not coming to any use as Mumbai local passengers are now crowding buses. The BJP has also demanded that the state government should pay ₹5,000 per person if it does not reopen suburban railway services
