Delhi Assembly polls campaign trail: ‘AAP fulfilled basic needs of bijli, sadak & paani… Bharadwaj is available for us’

He touches the feet of a fewer radical and greets the others wrong the DDA flats’ complex. As soon arsenic helium reaches J block, a immense assemblage of men unreserved to greet him with folded hands adjacent Budh Vihar, a Buddhist temple astatine DDA flats. He says “Dhyan rakhiyega”.

Greater Kailash constituency has 1.88 lakh voters, including 99,050 men, 89,305 women and 9 3rd sex voters. It houses radical from mediate income and precocious mediate income groups.

Bharadwaj (45) is the three-time MLA from the constituency. In 2013, helium had defeated Ajay Kumar Malhotra of BJP. Prior to Ajay, BJP’s Vijay Kumar Malhotra had won the seat. In 2020, Bhardwaj was re-elected from GK for the 3rd time. He defeated BJP’s Shikha Roy by a borderline of 16,809 votes. Rai, a BJP councillor, is going up against him again this time.

As Bharadwaj walks successful the accent of DDA flats country successful Kalkaji with a fewer enactment workers, the thoroughfare is reverberating with songs similar ‘Delhi ki janta ke kaam karta hai’ and ‘Fir laayenge Kejriwal’ from a talker being carried by an AAP worker.

According to Y K Singh (68), a Budha Vihar resident, Bharadwaj has done capable successful the area. He got roads constructed, improved thoroughfare lights and installed CCTV cameras, among others. “He utilized to travel present each Wednesday to conscionable us,” Singh says.

However, Shehnaz Kaur does not agree. Maintaining that she volition not ballot for anyone, she says, “They person not fixed maine widow pension contempt my repeated requests.”

When Bharadwaj crossed her street, Shehnaz could not conscionable him. She says she got to cognize astir his sojourn precocious and was looking to conscionable him but helium near successful a hurry.

As Bharadwaj reaches L block, determination are respective requests from the aged to get the trees pruned oregon cut. “This is causing america a batch of occupation due to the fact that we are not getting capable vitamin D. It’s not harmless either. The sunlight doesn’t penetrate these trees,” says an aged resident.

Bharadwaj explains that portion owed to a precocious tribunal order, trees cannot beryllium felled but helium volition look into the matter.

A radical of aged women stitchery astir him to inquire astir the Mahila Samman Yojana and the widow pension strategy of the AAP. “You tin travel to my office, I volition inquire my radical to look into your issues,” helium says.

“Ek hullo pension milegi…,” helium tells an aged woman, who says that she retired from authorities work and besides gets her work pension.

Bharadwaj believes his transportation with his constituents gives him an edge. “The speech present is astir the enactment done by maine compared to the BJP candidate. Here, the Congress got 2% votes successful 2015 and 3% successful 2020. They are insignificant,” helium says.

“The contender from BJP is simply a second-time councilor from GK 1 ward. People person seen her enactment for the past 8 years and radical person seen my enactment for the past 11 years arsenic MLA… I accidental to them that I don’t privation to get into the tu-tu main main of politics. I conscionable privation to archer you that you person seen our enactment and behaviour and however I woody with radical and RWAs (resident payment associations) and however she deals with radical and RWAs. I tin accidental with each humility and work that 80%… and astatine immoderate places astir apt 90%… of the enactment is done by the MLA.”

“Even MCD works, expected to beryllium done by the councillor… for illustration fixing interior roads… person been done by me,” helium told The Indian Express.

As helium moves to the adjacent artifact successful Kalkaji, the erstwhile bundle technologist comes crossed 80-year-old R K Mehta, a retired defence employee. Mehta asks Bharadwaj to assistance him waive disconnected his h2o measure of Rs 70,000. The curate promises to look into it.

Mehta’s person D S Arora (71) says AAP has managed to fulfill the basal needs of bijli, sadak and paani. Praising Bharadwaj, Arora says that the curate is disposable for radical and visits the country often. “He besides got each the parks revamped successful our area,” helium says.

However, Sulabha Basarkar (70) and Shanti Devi (48) from the aforesaid artifact accidental determination is sewage is an contented present and the full country gets flooded with gutter h2o during the monsoon. “We volition kick erstwhile helium meets us,” says Shanti. Sulabha, meanwhile, complains that she applied for a widow pension but couldn’t get it.