No Ganeshotsav at Mumbai’s iconic mandal this year

MUMBAI: It’s among the biggest idols and it gets the biggest crowds. Ganeshotsav, for many of those who celebrate it, is incomplete without a visit to Lalbaugcha Raja, arguably Mumbai’s favourite pandal.

This year, however, there will be no idol there, no aartis, no queues snaking all the way down Ambedkar Road in the heart of the city. For the first time in the pandal’s 86 years, the Lalbaugcha Raja committee will not install a murti due to the Covid-19 pandemic.