Just as I was out to start writing this, a mail from the Mumbai Press Club arrived that the famed bar is shut today. So, if you haven’t stocked up and don’t have a friendly neighbourhood bootlegger to help you refuel, you’ll need to make do with laddoos on a Dry Day.

Television channels had correspondents focussing on the ball-shaped sweets being readied in anticipation of a BJP victory. An Ahmedabad journalist reported that an Ahmedabad shop had received an order of 4,000 kilos of laddoos.