Ringing in the old

The campaign for the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation had been imbued with great resonance by Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan. It was, he said, a face-off between the UPA and the NDA. In the event, Chavan’s Congress party slid from its previous strength in Mumbai municipal body, the richest in the country. The Shiv Sena-BJP combine again put itself within striking distance of extending its two-decade-long hold on the BMC, but politically it is a bruised combine too.

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