BJP leader Ashish Shelar has alleged that a state-owned piece of land at a prime location in Mumbai was illegally sold by by the Maha Vikas Aghadi (government) to a private builder at a throwaway price in connivance with a top leader.

He also called for a Criminal Investigation Department (CID) probe into the matter and sought to know the names of those who cleared the proposal for the sale of plot. "It is a one acre and five guntha plot located at Bandstand near a five-star hotel, which is now sold to the private builder. As per the 2034 development plan of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), the plot was reserved for setting up a rehabilitation center. But before the state could take its possession, it was sold to the builder at a meager amount of Rs 234 crore," he alleged.