Kalkaji Assembly Election Results: Slum Voters Hold Key to Kalkaji

Kalkaji Assembly Election Results : Slum voters are important because of their high voter turnout in Kalkaji Assembly

Kalkaji Assembly seat is one of the important seats in Delhi. There is a tough competition between Aam Aadmi Party, Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party here. Aam Aadmi Party has won the seat in the last two elections, and slum voters have made a significant contribution

Highlights

1. CM Atishi will contest from Kalkaji seat again
2. BJP and Congress have strong candidates this time too
3. Slum voters make a significant contribution in Kalkaji

Kalkaji Assembly Election Results 2020 and Analysis 

Kalkaji Assembly is one of the hot seats. Delhi Chief Minister Atishi became MLA from this seat in 2020 and is also contesting from this seat in the Delhi elections. Former BJP MP Ramesh Bidhuri and Congress Mahila Congress Chief Alka Lamba are contenders from this seat.

This seat was formed in 1972. The assembly constituency has posh colonies like Maharani Bagh, Kalkaji, New Friends Colony, East of Kailash, Nehru Place, Sukhdev Vihar. On the other hand, residential colonies like Govindpuri, Giri Nagar, Ishwar Nagar, Srinivaspuri, Masihgarh also come under it.

There are Punjabi-Sikh dominated areas here, most of the voters are from the families who were settled here after the partition.

At the same time, there is also a good number of people who have come from Purvanchal and Bengal. More than 25 JJ colonies are also settled here.

The slum voters play an important role here, about 40% of the Voters here are from slums.

What are the election issues?

The temple of Kalka Devi is the identity of this place. Issues also change along with the assembly areas. The complaints of the people of Kalkaji, Sukhdev Vihar, Maharani Bagh are about roads, traffic jams, parking problems, sealing, security.

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In Kalkaji, old two-storey houses built at the time of partition, narrow lanes, parking, encroachment are also issues this time as well.

According to the people of Srinivaspuri area, the area is struggling with issues like sewage and garbage. Issues like water, sewage, waste management, security system are important in JJ clusters.

Whose role in victory and defeat

The role of Punjabi and Sikh voters here, which has won the Aam Aadmi Party for two times, is largely in the eyes of the candidates.

In this area settled by refugees, the community kept growing family by family. In such a situation, most of the candidates are also from these communities.

The slum voters played a big role in the last one. Secondly, there are 25 JJ clusters in this area, more than 50% voting takes place from slum settlements every time, so it is important for every candidate.

Kalkaji Assembly Election Results - Political Mood

BJP's Purnima Sethi won the Kalkaji assembly seat from Congress's Subhash Chopra in 1993. On 1998, the result was reversed and the seat remained with the Congress for the next three terms. 1998, 2003 and 2008, Congress leader Subhash Chopra was the MLA from this seat all three times.

After this, BJP made a comeback, in 2013 BJP leader Harmeet Singh Kalka defeated AAP's Dharambir Singh. But since 2015, Aam Aadmi Party has occupied the seat. First Avtar Singh defeated BJP's Harmeet Singh Kalka and in 2020 Atishi won this seat.