'The remover of obstacles' - that is how the elephant-headed Lord Ganesh is referred to in Hindu mythology, and he worked his magic in Mumbai Wednesday, on Ganesh Chaturthi, to bring the estranged Thackeray cousins closer together before civic body election later this year.
This morning Shiv Sena (UBT) boss Uddhav Thackeray welcomed cousin Raj Thackeray, the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief, to the family home of Matoshree to worship 'Ganpati bappa'.