You cannot call it seismic on the political scale, but there certainly has been a tremor on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) poll landscape. The Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis suffered a setback on Tuesday when the Supreme Court ruled that he would have to face trial for allegedly failing to furnish details of two pending criminal cases in his election affidavits.

The verdict, which has seen the Opposition jumping like kids on a sugar high, asking for the CM to resign on "moral grounds" has come on a complaint filed by a Nagpur advocate called Satish Uke. The advocate, taking on Fadnavis, said that he had filed his complaint "back in 2014. I knew the current Maharashtra CM would have cases against him. I come from the same voting constituency as him and I knew his background. I searched on the District Court website and saw that there were 24 matters against his name.