For the second consecutive local body elections in Gujarat, the ruling BJP has registered a landslide victory across the state’s nearly 10,000 seats, shrinking the Opposition’s space further. In a silver lining for the Opposition ranks, the Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) managed to notch up a few symbolic wins. For instance, the Khadia ward in the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation, a BJP bastion since 1972, has been won by the Congress while the Narmada district panchayat went to the AAP, which was the only one among 34 district bodies that the BJP lost. Bastion breached BJP leaders say the loss in Khadia, a ward in the heart of Ahmedabad, “can never be forgotten or forgiven”. On Tuesday, the neighbourhood witnessed a first — a Congress victory rally — with its four winning corporators bathed in milk in celebration. Khadia will also see another first: its first Muslim corporator, Mohammad Ilyaskhan Pathan.…