Shiv Sena’s crunchy-punchy slogan to woo the Gujarati voter base – ‘Mumbai ma jalebi fafda, Uddhav Thackeray aapda’, is a barometer of how run-up to the BMC’s 2022 elections is heating up. Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) MLA from Kalkaji, Delhi, Atishi (she goes only by her first name) was in the city to announce the party’s intent to contest all 227 seats in next year’s polls.

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At a media interaction hosted by Mumbai Press Club on Friday afternoon, Atishi spoke about how the party can bring the Delhi model of governance to the city where public education is in “a sorry state”. To buttress her argument, the educationist said, “Student enrolment in BMC schools has halved from 63,392 in 2008 to 30,075 in 2017.” She added that this was the same scenario in Delhi five years back when the AAP came to power.