During the visit, Thackeray interacted with villagers who allegedly face displacement or the loss of their land due to the project. MNS leaders Bala Nandgaonkar, Avinash Jadhav and Sandeep Deshpande, among others, accompanied him. MNS chief Raj Thackeray on Wednesday visited the site in Karjat where tree felling has begun for the proposed 3,000-MW pumped storage project. The project will require the felling of 32,490 trees..