It’s not a good year to be a govinda in the city. Just days after NCP MLA from Mumra-Kalva Jitendra Awhad announced that he was scrapping the city’s costliest Sangharsh dahi handi, one more rich and glamorous dahi handi has been called off by ex-Congress MLA from Vile Parle, Krishna Hegde.

The state has given dahi handi adventure sport status, but that has failed to buoy organisers’ spirits