Mumbai-Pune expressway ranks first among few notable achievements that the maiden Shiv Sena-BJP government had in its saffron kitty. Another signature performance was building 55 flyovers in the city under a watchful remote-control called Bal Thackeray.
Before coming to power in 1995, the Sena-BJP had innumerable promises in their manifesto – 'Vachannama'. Most of them didn't become reality in the four and a half years of rule but for the expressway which was Thackeray’s dream project.