Mumbai, July 2 -- Opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) leaders staged a protest at the Maharashtra legislature complex today, on the third day of the monsoon session.

The opposition shouted slogans standing on the steps of the Vidhan Bhavan (Maharashtra legislature complex building) here, accusing the Fadnavis government of favouring a private company called Megha Engineering & Infrastructure Ltd which had bagged a major tunnel project in Thane, and alleging that the deal involved a Rs 3,000-crore scam.

"Megha Engineering and Infrastructure is the government's favourite contractor," and "Megha gets the cream while farmers remain hungry," were some of the slogans shouted by MVA opposition leaders.

MVA opposition MLAs and Members of Leg...