India, Jan. 16 -- The BJP and its allies, the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena, and, to a lesser extent, the Ajit Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) are poised to win 24 of Maharashtra's 29 municipal corporations, suggesting that their landslide win in the assembly elections last November was no fluke. The Mahayuti, a coalition of the BJP, the Shiv Sena, and the NCP, won 235 of the 288 seats in the assembly in that election, reversing the losses of the general polls in May, and indicating that the political ground in the state was shifting in favour of the BJP. This trend has held true, and the BJP is now in a commanding position across the state (it fought alone in 16 of the 29 corporations and was leading in 13 of them as of 10 PM), ...