Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis fires up his base that has led him to resounding victories in both the 2014 state Assembly polls and last year’s zilla and council elections

It took the BJP 25 years to walk out of the shadow of the Shiv Sena. But now that it has, it is starting to tower over it. Slowly, over the last three years, the party has grown into the biggest party — not just at national (282 MPs) and state (123 MLAs) levels — but its growth spurt in the city, with 15 MLAs, is remarkable, too.