 Summary of this article
- RWAs accuse Aam Aadmi Party leadership of favouring jhuggi voters, while many residents in informal settlements highlight gains in water, schools, and clinics.
- Visible projects like gates and benches dominate in affluent pockets, but larger civic issues; sewage, encroachment, walkability, persist.
- Across communities, residents report reduced access to the MLA and see governance as constrained after AAP lost control of Delhi.
The garbage mound has not been picked up for the last two days, but that’s ‘normal’, say the residents of JJ colony near Kalkaji Post Office. “Wo chotte chotte baal wali?” a little girl asks with a grin as her mother speaks to Outlook about Atishi. She says that Atishi came here for a shop’s inauguration. That is the only time she’s visited this place since her re-election as MLA in 2025. The mother shushes her, says Atishi is nice. Aam Admi Party (AAP) gave them a ‘lot’. |
