The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) has kept its word. Earlier this year, the MMRDA had told this newspaper that the Currey Road Bridge, officially known as Mahadev Palav Marg, will be re-opened in September, following a shutdown since March to allow for monorail construction.

However, both Shiv Sena and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) are claiming that it is their protests that persuaded the MMRDA to fulfill its promises in time for Ganesh Chaturthi. Thousands use the bridge to come towards Lalbaug and Parel where some of Mumbai’s popular Ganpati mandals are located.