“You could know how you can get issues achieved”: Sandeep Dikshit

Delhi is headed for meeting elections on 5 February. Although usually described as a ‘half-state’ as a result of energy is shared with the Centre, it’s all the time within the highlight. It’s, in any case, the nationwide capital and the headquarters of the large boys of mainstream media.

The Aam Aadmi Occasion, which has dominated this ‘half-state’ since 2013 — by itself since 2015 — is dealing with the warmth of anti-incumbency. Questions are being requested about its unfulfilled guarantees, its tendency to overcommit and underdeliver, and corruption in authorities.

The media is projecting this as a race between AAP and the BJP, not anticipating the Congress to make important inroads. However even its rivals concede in personal conversations that the grand previous celebration’s marketing campaign is trying sharper this time, that it has good candidates within the fray and that it might but make a very good fist of it.

The New Delhi constituency will see probably the most high-profile battle of all, pitting AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal in opposition to Parvesh Verma of the BJP and Sandeep Dikshit of the Congress, each sons of former chief ministers — Sahib Singh Verma and Sheila Dikshit, respectively.

On this battle of heavyweights, Sandeep Dikshit compels consideration together with his quiet conviction, his modesty and the best way he fights the bluster of his rivals with details. He has been an MP (from East Delhi) however has no hesitation in admitting he’s higher referred to as ’Sheila Dikshit’s son‘.

Excerpts from a dialog with Syed Khurram Raza…