Sonia Gandhi entered Mumbai through the Mulund check naka to a rousing welcome with thousands turning up to greet her.
From here the Congress president began a whistle-stop tour of the country's commercial capital.
She has conducted many such trips in the rural hinterland of India, but this was the first time she was attempting a similar tactic in the country's commercial capital. And going by the response she got at each of her 27 halts over the next five hours, it must be considered a success. The brain behind the idea: Mumbai Congress president Gurudas Kamat, MP.
The Congress president at Hari Om Nagar near the Mulund check naka, Mumbai's northern limit
Photograph: Arun Patil