The Union home minister, whose visit is partly political and partly to get a feel of the city’s festive ambience, will go on a Ganesh darshan at some prominent locations while also inaugurating a school in Mumbai.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah, who arrived in Mumbai late Sunday evening, will visit the Lalbaugcha Raja, one of the city’s most famous Ganesh mandals in Lower Parel, on Monday morning. Packed into Shah’s hectic itinerary during his whirlwind visit to the city is a meeting with state BJP leaders at Sagar Bungalow, the residence of Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, on Monday morning.
The Union home minister, whose visit is partly political and partly to get a feel of the city’s festive ambience, will go on a Ganesh darshan at some prominent locations while also inaugurating a school in Mumbai. After visiting the Lalbaughcha Raja, Shah will arrive at the Bandra Sarvajanik Ganeshotsav Mandal at BJP MLA and the party’s Mumbai president Ashish Shelar’s constituency in Bandra West.
However, the most striking aspect of his Mumbai trip will be a visit to Chief Minister Eknath Shinde’s Malabar Hills residence, Varsha. It will be the first such meeting between Shah and the chief of the rebel Shiv Sena faction since ‘Operation Lotus’, which saw Shinde engineer a coup in the Sena allegedly with support of the BJP at the Centre and state, eventually resulting in the fall of the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government.