<b>T N Ninan: </b>Will BJP change Mumbai?

The city needs some autonomy, or it will continue to decline in all the ways that are familiar

So much of what is news, and the commentary around the news, leaves unasked the key question: what has really changed? That’s the question that must be asked at the end of local elections in Mumbai that have shaken the city’s main political force, the Shiv Sena, and notched up yet another success for the party that is on the rise, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), even as the Congress has marked one more territory where its future relevance has become a question. So, yes, the local elections are politically significant, and have some degree of national resonance; but what