On Thursday and Friday, the BJP sent observers to all civic bodies to 'take the pulse' of the leaders ahead of the mid-term change of guard at the top elected posts to be done between September 9 and 11.
The BJP has been harping on its “double-engine” government advantage but in Vadodara, the party’s two bogeys – Padra taluka (tehsil) and Padra Municipality attached to the engine have come unstuck.