A sea of Ganesh devotees braved rains and a bomb threat to bid farewell to their beloved elephant-headed deity amid the beating of ‘dhol-tasha’ and rising clouds of ‘gulal’ as the 10-day Ganpati festival drew to a close on Saturday (September 6, 2025).
More than 18,000 idols of the elephant-headed deity were immersed in various water bodies in Mumbai till 9 p.m., officials said. “No untoward incident was reported during the immersion process,” said an official of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC).
