Pudhchya Varshi Lavkar Yaa......

In spite of high alert all over the city and state Mumbaikars bid a rocking farewell to the very famous Lord Ganesha. The whole city was on high alert after the five bomb blasts in New Delhi on Saturday, day prior to Ganesh Visarjan. Many mandals in Mumbai started late for the Immersion procession due to very heavy rains all over Mumbai. But Bappa listened to both the wishes and left with a grand salute of Mumbaikars. In spite of heavy rains and high alert in the city, lakhs of people were present at locations like Parel, Lalbaug, Byculla and various immersion locations like Girgaum, Juhu and Dadar.

As it was the 75th year of the famous wish fulfilling Lalbaugcha Raja, there was a tight security through out the procession from Lalbaug to Girgaum. The distance from Lalbuag to Girgaum would not take more than an hour to reach, but the grand procession of the Raja took almost 21 hours and finally early morning on Monday at 6AM, the idol touched the sands of Girgaum Chowpatty with at least a crowd of 1 lakh devotees (including people already present at the location).

There were no major calamities except the idol from Mugbhat Lane (Girgaoncha Maharaja) which collapsed at Girgaum, had 3 serious injuries. There was also short circuit at the BEST tower which was under control soon by the concerned authorities.

With full of joy and excitement and also some tension around, Mumbaikars bid farewell to their loving Ganesha by shouting..... Ganpati Bappa Morya....Pudhchya Varshi Lavkar Yaa......