Traffic congestion is inescapable in the constituency, where planned colonies of the 1970s have expanded from single-storey houses to four-storey apartments, and roads, once wide, have been reduced to lanes by haphazard parking. Greater Kailash best illustrates this. The popular GK-I market has been overshadowed by the chaos, and commercialization of residential properties at the entry to Greater Kailash II near Savitri Cinema has been a sore point with residents.
Asha Sharma, a senior citizen who has lived in GK-II for more than 35 years, says the area may seem clean and orderly to outsiders but those who have been here for decades find little improvement. "We have never seen MLA Vijay Kumar Malhotra. Now his son is fighting the elections and we don't know him at all," said Sharma, a doctor, before crossing a crowded road leading to the M-Block market.
Rajesh Malhotra who lives on the main road near Savitri Cinema points to the big boards at houses to express his discomfort with the commercialization. "This is no longer a place worth living in."
Chittaranjan Park, a colony that came up decades ago to rehabilitate refugees from East Pakistan and now crammed with middle-class families, is confronted by a parking mess, traffic jams, broken footpaths and markets spilling onto the roads. C Ghosh, a resident, complains about heavy traffic but notes an overall improvement in the electricity and water situation.
As you move towards DDA flats in Kalkaji, most roads are under repair, footpaths and central verges are being dug up. Sultan Singh, a resident walking past, spoke of works, including those on drainage, that have been undertaken only in the past few months.
Ajay Malhotra, who has got a BJP ticket, will be tested on his father's performance. Congress, departing from the tradition of fielding a Punjabi, has chosen a Gujjar and councillor from CR Park, Virender Kasana. For Kasana it is a test of his mettle on a turf where he and his brother have been active as councillors. While colonies like GK, Panchsheel and Kalkaji have been a BJP stronghold, urban villages of Shahpur Jat, Zamrudpur, Chirag Dilli, with concentrations of different communities likes Jats and Muslims, can change fortunes.
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