26 hours procession in Pune

Even after cancelling decorations and bypassing the show, Pune's Ganesh Mandals can not keep the procession limited to 24 hrs. The mandals have shown readiness to end the procession within 12 hours, but actually it lasted for 25 hrs. and 45 minutes.

The procession had started at 12:00 PM yesterday and ended today at 11:45 AM. Even though many mandals came without any float; Nimbalkar Talim's procession was without vehicle at all, they could not end it within time. Onus lies with Dagdusheth Halwai Ganpati, which is the centre of attraction because of its heavy lighting and decorations. The mandal did not have any decoration but it was late from the start. It had promised to bring the chariot on Laxmi Road at 9 PM but could not do so. Then its immersion actually took place at 5:30 AM. Obviously many mandals got late because of this.

Even though it appears to be a long time, the roads of procession were never heavily ridden with public. Hence it did not cause much trouble to public. Traffic on F. C. road from Karve Road was open as early as 11 AM. Normally it is closed till late in the afternoon. This had made sure that immersion procession in Pune will always be at least 24 hours long.