They say a picture can speak a thousand words, but then so can the absence of one. An enormous hoarding commissioned by the city’s BJP unit on the Bandra stretch of the Western Express Highway speaks volumes of the ongoing discord within the party, and hints at the lines along which new allegiances have formed within it -- all by virtue of the conspicuous absence of the newly anointed chairman of the party’s election campaign committee chairman, Narendra Modi.

Picture never lies: The banner on the Bandra stretch of the Western Express Highway endorsed by the city’s BJP president Ashish Shelar. Pic/Suresh KK