This story is from April 27, 2017

Sangam Vihar captures voter dilemma on choice

Congestion, crowds and lack of infrastructure uniformly mark the unauthorised colony of Sangam Vihar in south Delhi. But there is nothing uniform about the choices it made in the civic elections.
Sangam Vihar captures voter dilemma on choice
MCD polls.
NEW DELHI: Congestion, crowds and lack of infrastructure uniformly mark the unauthorised colony of Sangam Vihar in south Delhi. But there is nothing uniform about the choices it made in the civic elections.
BJP candidate Deepak Jain won in Sangam Vihar E, defeating the AAP candidate by a mere 812 votes. In Sangam Vihar C, on the other hand, AAP won, defeating the BJP candidate by a margin of 6468 votes.
Interestingly, in Sangam Vihar A, people chose an independent over AAP and BJP. He won by a margin of 519 votes over the BJP candidate. This captures the dilemma of the Delhi voter even in areas with similar profiles. So, while AAP won in the illegal colony of Tigri, it was rejected by people in Jaitpur where BJP emerged victorious.
And going by voting trends, BJP has won in areas where AAP and Congress were hoping to gain the confidence of voters. There was 55% voting in rural and backward areas.
In Sarita Vihar’s middle and upper middle class areas, people voted back sitting councillor Neetu of Congress. In the middle class colony of Malviya Nagar, the BJP candidate defeated AAP with Vasant Kunj also choosing BJP but the runner-up here was Congress. However, not too far from Malviya Nagar, in the urban village of Chirag Dilli, a mixed population voted AAP to power, with BJP ending in the second place. In RK Puram and GK, BJP won, pushing AAP to the second place.
While the middle class of Kalkaji ward voted for BJP, rejecting sitting Congress councilor Virender Kasana, in Govindpuri they chose Congress over BJP. Govindpuri slums were the last location where CM Arvind Kejriwal held his roadshow before the closing of campaign.
Congress won three seats out of 64 in the east. These were from areas which have a mix of unauthorised colonies and slums, where AAP was expected to win. Mustafabad ward had a Congress councillor, Parveen, who defeated AAP’s candidate, Shakila Begum, with a margin of over 4,000 votes. Congress candidate Rinku defeated BJP candidate Bharat Lal with a margin of 1,300 votes in Nand Nagri ward. While east has a majority of unauthorised and resettlement colonies, AAP secured 11 seats while 47 seats went to BJP and two to BSP.
Similarly, in north corporation area, Burari that has many unauthorised colonies voted for BJP candidate Anil Kumar Tyagi, defeating AAP candidate Asit Kumar by a margin of 2,800 votes. Bawana too chose BJP candidate Braham Prakash over AAP and Congress candidates by a margin of almost 3,000 votes.
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