The January headlines had carried a snippet about a politician that tickled the reader with its irony. A 64-year-old sugar baron in Punjab's Kapurthala constituency, the state's richest candidate in the upcoming elections, had headed to Britain last October for a weight loss surgery. He returned 15 lighter ahead of campaigning for the state Assembly elections. On a diet of gluten-free chapatis and buffalo butter, he is now strictly off the refined sugar that's made him rich.

But, Punjab isn't going to polls alone. Things are also heating up in Mumbai, a city that will cast its vote for the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) elections on February 21. With candidates having being announced on February 3 for the 227 seats in the fray, parties have already begun their prachar (door-to-door campaigning). And here's how the energy conservation plan is being executed across parties.