Sun sets in the East for Sheila’s Congress

Chief minister Sheila Dikshit's ambitious project of trifurcating MCD and her decision to carve out a separate municipality - smaller than the North and South corporations - with 64 wards in the east has backfired very badly. Unimpressed by the infrastructure projects and hundreds of crores spent on flyovers and Metro links in the run-up to Commonwealth Games in 2010, the people living in slums, unauthorized colonies and Muslim-dominated belts have ruthlessly rejected Congress, making way for BJP which won 35 of the 64 seats. The Congress ended on the fringes, gasping with just 19 seats.

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