After a number of tweets by Minister of Railways Piyush Goyal till late Sunday night, asking the Maharashtra government to issue a list of the shramik trains it requires, around 2 am the state handed over the details of 46 trains. In an address to the state on Sunday, chief minister Uddhav Thackeray had said that the railway ministry was not sanctioning enough trains for the state. Soon after Goyal took to Twitter to address the problem, resulting in a political slugfest.

Goyal first tweeted saying that he was giving an hour to the state government to submit a list of trains. After that he kept reminding the state through a number of tweets. Finally at 2 am Goyal tweeted, "Where is the list for 125 trains from Maharashtra? As of 2 am, received list of only 46 trains of which 5 are to West Bengal and Odisha, which cannot operate due to cyclone Amphan. We are notifying only 41 trains for today despite being prepared for 125!!!."