On Saturday, the Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar took a jibe at Maharashtra Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis in connection with a Samruddhi Expressway bus accident that killed 25 by claiming people had told him such fatalities become "devendrawasis".

Presently, the Nagpur-Mumbai Samruddhi Expressway is operational on a 601-kilometre stretch from Vidarbha's largest city to Bharvir in Nashik.