New Delhi: Vilasrao Deshmukh was a Marathwada leader, Ashok Chavan is a Nanded chieftan, Sushil Kumar Shinde is a Sholapur satrap and Pawars rule western Maharashtra. But this civic poll makes Devendra Fadnavis a pan-Maharashtra leader: that’s how a state BJP leader summed up his party’s performance in the civic body elections.
Over 100 hoardings dot the skyline of Mumbai — all with one single message ‘Ha Majha Shabda Ahe’ which means ‘This Is My word’.
“The Shiv Sena was taunting the BJP, a national party, and giving us just 60 seats. Let’s show them,” he would often tell his BJP colleagues who were used to playing second fiddle to Thackeray’s party for over two decades. He would often quote a survey to convince them that the BJP was winning — how, where and when this survey happened, nobody ever knew.
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