After arriving an hour late for a meeting scheduled to discuss railway punctuality, the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena delegation, led by Raj Thackeray's son Amit Thackeray, went on to display zero understanding of the way the railways functioned. The poorly-informed delegation kept asking for deadlines for such things as delays, punctuality, and safety. When the officials tried to reason with them, explaining the progress on the stranded Diva-Thane project and other measures to increase carrying capacity of the network, the delegation leaders, in typical MNS style, tried to bully them by asking for a time frame to bring the system back on track.

The delegation, mainly comprising local Dombivli leaders, with MNS leader Sandeep Deshpande got their leader’s son Amit to question the general manager on failing punctuality and increasing complaints of commuters from far-flung suburbs.