Delhi is among the few states where Congress is in power for two consecutive terms. Despite the perennial infighting, Shiela Dixit retained her post and she will once again be the torch bearer of the Congress

Delhi is among the few states where Congress has been in power for two consecutive terms. Despite the perennial infighting, Shiela Dixit retained her post and she will once again be the torch bearer of her party. Dixit inherited a very chaotic Delhi, which she transformed as a modern megalopolis. Despite the huge influx of migrants, Delhi has seen an all round development.

Dixit failed to do many thing relating to housing infrastructure, primarily due to the handicap of a truncated statehood at her disposal. Law and order and Housing are in control of Central government and everybody knows that Delhi Development Authority (DDA) is the epitome of corruption and inefficiency. Delhi Police on the other hand can be classified among the best in the country.

CM Dixit was considered an outsider when she was chosen for the post by Sonia Gandhi. Politicians were forced to accept her as she was madam Gandhi’s choice. Dixit took developmental plunge right away, which culminated into a vastly improved city–infrastructure. Her initial years were trouble free but later, her own party colleagues started mounting pressure on her. There was a virtual revolt against her and it seemed that the party and the government were two distinct entities.

Internal skirmishes benefited BJP and it wrested the majority in the Municipal Corporation. The cacophony created due to high speed bus corridor nearly ousted Dixit and despite the internal bickering and widespread disenchantment, she has been given the responsibility to lead the government in third term also, if the Congress is able to thwart anti-incumbency factor and garner majority support in the Delhi Assembly.

A recent survey conducted by a leading television network has shown that she is popular among masses and she has retained her ’honest doer’ image.
After the defeat of Chandrababu Naidu in the Andhra Pradesh Assembly election, it was being said that development never translates into votes, hence Naidu perished. Narendra Modi’s victory was not assigned entirely to his developmental strides. It is hoped that Dixit would prove critics wrong by winning and would keep forward the march of Delhi in her third term also. People of Delhi are well educated and are tired of petty politics and this could be a clincher for Dixit.