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India’s big two metros Delhi and Mumbai are poised for local elections and the political stakes have never been bigger. In 2017, BJP and AAP campaigned for MCD projecting their respective supremos, PM Modi and CM Kejriwal, and Delhi voters preferred BJP, two years after AAP’s sweeping assembly poll victory. Now a far more acrimonious battle looms, amid relations between the Delhi L-G and AAP government nosediving. Delhi votes in the shadow of AAP’s growing national ambitions, now reaching Gujarat. BJP has a big opportunity to seize BMC, for long under the Thackerays. The 2017 BMC polls were an existential fight for Shiv Sena, with BJP as its opponent, and Sena barely scraped through. Cut to 2022, Sena is weaker after sundering into two factions, giving BJP its best shot to control the country’s financial nerve centre