The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) invited the former chairman and members of the standing committee that gave the go-ahead to the Coastal Road project in 2012 to a felicitation event today. However, the BMC forgot to invite Sunil Prabhu, the former mayor under whose leadership the House of the civic body gave its nod to the project, which was recently partially opened. The standing committee, under the chairmanship of Yashwant Jadhav, eventually approved the Rs 12,000-crore project in September 2018. However, the BMC has invited only committee members from 2012.

The felicitation programme will be held at 3 pm today (Friday). Rahul Shewale, the then-chairman of the committee, is now a Shiv Sena (Shinde) MP. A BMC official said they also invited members of the standing committee from all parties. The event will be held in the House instead of the standing committee hall.