India, Oct. 20 -- Days after over 100 residents from the Naigaon-Chinchoti-Vasai belt wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking "permission to die by suicide" out of sheer frustration with the crumbling Mumbai-Ahmedabad National Highway (NH-48), villagers from Sasunghar have now warned of taking their agitation to Delhi.

On Saturday, residents of Sasunghar, located along the busy NH-48 corridor in Palghar district, said they would stage a protest at Jantar Mantar during the winter session of Parliament if the authorities fail to repair the highway and ease traffic chaos by then.

The villagers were summoned to the Naigaon police station earlier this week, where officials urged them to withdraw their suicide appeal. But the residents ...