Know your mayor’s name?

Normally, a Delhi assembly election wouldn’t merit a second glance. With just 70 seats and a quasi chief minister, the city-state that is also the nation’s capital, languishes somewhere at the bottom of the political pecking order. High-flying leaders who would otherwise give an arm and a leg for an address in Lutyen’s Delhi, have always preferred to devote their energies to the contest for the seat of power atop Raisina Hill. Assembly polls were left to locals boxed in Punjabi refugee politics, the Jat-Gujjar caste configuration and the influx from Bihar.

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