The Central Railway Mazdoor Sangh (CRMS) along with other railway staff have started staging hunger strikes in protest against the construction of the Parel terminus, as according to them it would further congest the city and destabilise the Central Railway.

The Central Railway has already issued letters to the railway board for closing the 139-year old Parel workshop, where the new terminus would come up. Sources are of the opinion that as the Mumbai CSMT is saturated and the LTT station falls out of the way for passengers on the Western Railway section, the Central Railway's idea to build a mega outstation train terminus at Parel had received a boost in this year's budget with a fund allocation of Rs 193 crore for the project. However, the CRMS said that the idea of a terminus at the place would not only congest the city more but also destabilise a large number of workers at the Parel workshop.