Every year during Ganesh Chaturti, the city police are on their toes to thwart communal clashes that erupt especially on the day of Visarjan. Sparks often fly when processions pass through communally sensitive areas, resulting in bad blood between the communities. This animosity may be a truth for some years now, but the fact also remains that the pioneer of sarvajanik (public) Ganpati festival in Sanskarinagari was none other than a Muslim man, that too when he was 107 years old.
Jumma Dada, a famed wrestler in the erstwhile Baroda state, had initiated Ganesh festival at his ‘akhada’ way back in 1901with an aim to foster the spirit of national integration and patriotism.
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