Northeast Delhi Lok Sabha constituency has become a prestige battle for the BJP with firebrand youth leader and Congress-INDIA Alliance candidate Kanhaiya Kumar giving a tough fight to two time BJP MP Manoj Tiwari, the only one of the seven BJP candidates to retain their ticket. With the largest Muslim population and a high percentage of migrant voters from neighbouring states, the region was the epicentre of the 2020 communal violence and is hoping for change. While Tiwari is relying on his popularity as a singer-actor and the Modi factor, Kumar has been campaigning on the ground with his sharp attacks on the former's alleged failure to improve infrastructure and living conditions of neighbourhoods in the constituency.
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00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:03 Hello, this is Rakhi Bose, assistant editor with Outlook.
00:08 And currently, I am outside a polling booth
00:10 in Jafrabad, which is in Northeast Delhi.
00:13 Northeast Delhi is one of the seven Lok Sabha constituencies
00:15 in Delhi that are going to polls today on May 25
00:19 as part of the sixth phase of Lok Sabha elections.
00:21 This time, Delhi is seeing a tough fight
00:23 between the ruling BJP, which currently has all seven seats.
00:27 But the Aam Aadmi Party and the Congress
00:29 have formed an alliance and are fighting the election together
00:32 this time.
00:32 Northeast Delhi is being contested by Congress
00:35 candidate Kanhaiya Kumar, who is trying
00:37 to wrest the seat from sitting two-time BJP MP, Mr. Manoj
00:42 Tiwari.
00:43 The seat is important because it's
00:44 one of the biggest constituencies--
00:45 it's one of the biggest districts in Delhi.
00:47 It also has a large number of migrant population
00:50 from bordering states like Uttar Pradesh,
00:52 from Haryana, from Uttarakhand, as well as the largest Muslim
00:55 population in Delhi.
00:57 This seat also saw violence in 2020.
01:00 And this is the first election since the 2020 Delhi
01:02 violence that happened in Northeast Delhi.
01:05 The seat is seeing a tough fight.
01:06 And we're also seeing that a lot of voters
01:08 are coming to vote despite the heat.
01:09 There are long queues outside all the polling
01:11 booths in Northeast Delhi.
01:14 Stay tuned with Outlook for more election-related news
01:17 and updates from Delhi.
01:19 (upbeat music)