Mumbai, Jan. 17 -- Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis, 55, has led the Bharatiya Janata Party to electoral victories before, including, most famously, in the 2024 assembly election, but all of those elections have been fought in the name of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, with a huge supporting cast of party leaders from the Centre and other states. The 2026 local elections were almost singularly, his. The BJP contested 15 of the 29 municipal corporations that went to polls, alone or with partners other than the Shiv Sena and the Nationalist Congress Party, its partners in the Mahayuti government that rules the state. It fought two in partnership with the NCP, and eight, with the Shiv Sena. And the Mahayuti was in play in just four....