Migrant workers, mainly from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, livein theconstituency'sslums and JJ clusters, and constitute more than 60% of the electorate. Water supply,sewerage and health facilities are the main poll issues here. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which won this seat for the first time in 2003, managed to retain it in 2008 but could find the going tough this time.
Bahujan SamajP arty (BSP), which lost the seat by a margin of about 10%in the 2008 assembly elections, is working hard to strengthen its base among the Jatav community and its other traditional vote banks who are present in sizable numbers here.
Ramesh Bidhuri,the sitting MLA from BJP, is hopeful of winning again. He cites development work, including the construction of community centres and a Rs 25.4-crore project to lay sewer lines across Prahladpur, Vishwakarma Colony,Lal Kuan and P rem Nagar among his achievements.
"My first priority will be to get a 550-bed hospital in the area so that people do not have to rush to AIIMS or Safdarjung for treatment," he says.
Bidhuri says 30 Delhi Jal Board (DJB)water tankers and 222 bore wells supply water in the village area. "Pipelines from the Sonia Vihar treatment plant are being laid and we are waiting for the government to get water from Haryana."
But the residents aren't satisfied. "In election after election, we have been told by politicians that the water supply will improve if they come to power. There is no significant change. In summer, we have to buy water to meet our daily need," says Gulab Singh, a factory worker living in Harkesh Nagar.
The opposition leaders allege that the mafia controls the water supply through tankers and uses it as a political tool to maintain its clout.
The roads inside the JJclusters are in a bad shape. "In the rainy season, the sewer overflows into the narrow streets. While some development work has been carried out in the last few years, a lot needs to be done to make the slum clusters livable," says Malti Devi, who lives in Vishwakarma Colony.
For health facilities, the locals say, they have to depend on private clinics run by quacks or rush to AIIMS and Safdarjung in emergencies. Tughlakabad Village, which has more than two lakh residents, has only one 10-bed hospital and maternity centre.
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