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UP election: BJP gets booster shot with BMC poll results

While Shiv Sena emerged as single largest party cornering 84 seats, BJP won 82 seats

People throng the venue of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Parivartan Sankalp rally in Phulpur, Uttar Pradesh on Monday.
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Virendra Singh Rawat Lucknow
The stupendous poll showing by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) election has come as a booster shot for the party, which is locked in a triangular fight in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls.

While, Shiv Sena emerged as the single largest party cornering 84 seats, BJP came a close second winning 82 seats and more than doubling its 2012 BMC poll tally of 31. Before the BMC poll, the Shiv Sena had offered its junior ally BJP only 60 seats to contest.

The victory coming on the heels of back-to-back wins for BJP in