Speaking to mid-day.com, trade union leader Shashank Sharad Rao said, “The union’s demand is not new. The BEST Workers Union first raised this issue in 2016, arguing that separating BEST’s budget from the BMC’s main budget has financially weakened the undertaking and threatened the job security of thousands of workers”

The incident occurred in Tandulwadi village, located within the Malshiras taluka, when a jeep carrying devotees veared into a well on private farmland. While eight passengers lost their lives, emergency efforts successfully rescued seven others from the site