Not Revenge, However Struggle To Deliver Again Sheila Dikshit’s Delhi: Sandeep Dikshit Tells News18 – News18
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Congress, in its record of candidates for 2025 Delhi Meeting elections, has pitted Sandeep Dikshit reverse Arvind Kejriwal, from the New Delhi constituency.
Senior Congress chief Sandeep Dikshit is the son of former Delhi CM Sheila Dikshit. (Picture: PTI/File)
When bastions crumble, upheaval takes place. The New Delhi constituency is one such bastion, which is seeing one more problem after 2013. That was the 12 months when an activist and Earnings Tax officer Arvind Kejriwal was battle able to tackle three-time Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit from the New Delhi constituency, thought-about to be a fortress of the Congress. The consequence left many shocked as Kejriwal defeated her with over 25,000 votes, vowing to “ship the corrupt CM to jail.”
After virtually 11 years, Sheila Dikshit’s son Sandeep is on the brink of breach this bastion, which is now with Kejriwal. Congress, in its record of candidates for 2025 Delhi Meeting elections, has pitted Sandeep Dikshit reverse Arvind Kejriwal. Will it’s a son’s revenge? In spite of everything, Sandeep has been a bitter critic of the Aam Aadmi Social gathering (AAP) and might always remember the tough phrases Kejriwal used in opposition to his mom.
Sandeep Dikshit advised News18, “No, I don’t see it as revenge. I see it as a combat to reclaim what was as soon as a clear, inexperienced, developed Delhi. That is the town we wish to give again to the folks.”
However the Congress has made a shrewd alternative in pitting Sandeep Dikshit reverse the previous CM. It additionally now makes it clear that the Congress is not shying away from a direct combat with the AAP after Kejriwal snubbed the occasion and introduced that he would don’t have any alliance with them in Delhi. “In fact, I’m very joyful we’re not going into an alliance with the AAP. They’ve destroyed Delhi and we wish to save this metropolis which was constructed by Sheila Dikshit,” Sandeep stated.
Curiously, Sandeep Dikshit, prior to now 12 months, has been constructing on his mom’s legacy. “Even her worst critics settle for the truth that below her, Delhi was at its greatest. A number of flyovers, improvement initiatives, roads, clear automobiles had been her contribution. That is what we’ll construct our marketing campaign on,” Sandeep stated. There was a grudge that the Congress had used and thrown Sheila Dikshit and had uncared for her in her final years. Actually, in UP polls, Sheila Dikshit was projected because the Brahmin CM face of the Congress however was dumped halfway when the occasion went into an alliance with the SP as “UP ke ladke“. It’s a harm which Sheila Dikshit usually spoke about.
Whereas Sandeep has not been so scathing about it, he had on a number of events made it clear and proven with the large crowd which poured in to pay tribute to her on her demise anniversary that Sheila Dikshit might by no means be missed. On the selection of the constituency, Sandeep Dikshit stated, “In fact, I’m proud to be contesting from right here the place my mom was CM from. However I’ve no references. I used to be able to contest from wherever.”
‘Meri Delhi, Meri Shaan‘ (My Delhi, My Delight) was Sheila Dikshit’s pitch for Delhi polls. Below Sandeep Dikshit, the Congress hopes and needs to deliver this pitch again – to remind Delhiites that “Sheila Dikshit’s son will deliver again these good outdated days of Delhi.”
