In the heart of Lutyens' Delhi, a kilometre away from Sheila Dikshit's house, is the Tughlaq Lane slum cluster. Its residents, who live in rickety shacks, tell us that their VIP neighbours are Samajwadi Party leader Naresh Aggarwal, Union Minister Krishna Tirath, and down the road, Rahul Gandhi.The 500 families here - mostly Dalits and Muslims - have, for years, provided the core base that underlies Sheila Dikshit's hat-trick win in the New Delhi constituency.
(Read more)
