How Sheila Dikshit lost the New Delhi seat

In the heart of Lutyens’ Delhi, a kilometre away from Sheila Dikshit’s house, is the Tughlaq Lane slum cluster. Its residents, who live in rickety shacks, tell NDTV that their VIP neighbours are Samajwadi Party leader Naresh Aggarwal, Union Minister Krishna Tirath, and down the road, Rahul Gandhi. But neither of them have visited these areas to solve their problems. The 500 families here – mostly Dalits and Muslims – have, for years, provided the core base that underlies Sheila Dikshit’s hat-trick win in the New Delhi constituency. But this time their loyalty shifted towards the Aam Aadmi Party. (Audio in Hindi)

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