India, April 30 -- Congress leader and standing committee member Prashant Jagtap has opposed the proposed purchase of 1,000 buses for the Pune Mahanagar Parivahan Mahamandal Limited (PMPML), citing inflated costs, and warned that he would take the matter to court.

The proposal, which was first cleared by the PMPML board of directors on Thursday, subsequently came before the standing committee for fund approval.

Jagtap questioned the rationale behind procuring buses fitted with doors on both sides - a design suited exclusively for bus rapid transit system (BRTS) routes - at a time when the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) is actively dismantling existing BRTS corridors with no stated plans for expansion.

"If PMC is demolishing the BRTS ...