While the absence of Sonia Gandhi and Sharad Pawar cast a dampener on the UPA rally held in the city on Sunday, the NCP chief’s last minute decision to skip the event in Bandra Kurla Complex (BKC) inadvertently led to the waste of massive amounts of a precious commodity that the city can ill afford to misuse water.

mid-day lensman Sayed Sameer Abedi spotted this tanker sprinkling water at the MMRDA grounds on Sunday morning, in anticipation of Pawar’s arrival