After 2 years, devotees to get to visit Lalbaugcha Raja

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It is after two years that devotees of Lalbaugcha Raja will get a chance to touch the feet of Bappa and keep a Navas (vow), said Santosh Kambli, who along with his 81-year-old father Ratnakar Madhusudan Kambli has been sculpting the 14-ft Ganesh idol for decades for the Lalbaugcha Raja Sarvajanik Ganeshotsav Mandal.

For the last two years, the general public, owing to the Covid-19 pandemic, were not allowed to visit the pandal by the government. In 2020, for the first time in its history, the Lalbaughca Raja did not have an idol and in 2021, the mandal made a four-ft idol in place of its usual 14-ft idols.

Lalbaugcha Raja, one of the oldest and popular Ganpati mandals in Mumbai – established in 1934 – witnesses footfall of lakhs daily during the 10-day Ganpati festival, which begins next Wednesday this year.