North East Delhi Lok Sabha Polls: Local issues in spotlight as BJP's Manoj Tiwari takes on INDIA bloc's Kanhaiya Kumar
Delhi riots. He vividly remembers how his shop in the main market was burnt and his family of 10 lived in a camp for over four months before they could gather the courage to return. «The shop took longer to rebuild but the business has not been the same,» he says.
North East Delhi constituency, which has the maximum concentration of Muslim voters in Delhi at 20.7%, is divided along communal lines. The epicentre of the Delhi riots of 2020 which claimed 53 lives and left 583 injured, North East Delhi is witnessing a tight contest between two-term BJP MP Manoj Tiwari and Congress' Kanhaiya Kumar, a former CPI leader involved in students politics.
Tiwari is the only BJP MP who has not been dropped by the party in Delhi. But anti-incumbency is visible on the ground.
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Harjeet Singh, who runs a small roadside eatery in Ghonda, says, «Look at the squalor we live in. Drains are overflowing and you should come during monsoons. They keep saying double engine ki Sarkar. We have a BJP MLA and a BJP MP — where is development?»
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