While it was an unusual form of protest, but also shows how men have to indulge in histrionics to draw attention towards their issues.
In our society currently, there are women who would readily exchange their husbands with Yamraja for money in the form of maintenance/Alimony/ forced ownership of property. We see some people especially lawyers who help such unscrupulous women as Yamdoots.
On the occasion of Vatt Purnima, women pray to Lord Vishnu in form of stem of the Banyan tree to get the same husband in their next 7 lives by rolling a thread over the stem.
Men's Rights activists, members of a brother NGO, Mumbai based Vaastav Foundation dread to think what will come upon such men, if they get same wives and go through same harassment over and over again, hence they volunteered on Vatt Purnima, on 27th of June and prayed to Peepal tree behind GPO Depot, CST station, Mumbai by tying a black thread while doing anti clockwise circumambulations to help men negate the effects of such wives' prayers asking for the same companionship for next 7 lives. They also prayed Goddess Tulsi, consort of Lord Vishnu by tying a black thread around her to negate the effects of prayers by evil women asking to come back in those innocent men's next lives.
While it was an unusual form of protest, but also shows how men have to indulge in histrionics to draw attention towards their issues.