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Delhi's debate: Development vs acrimony

More than any metropolitan agglomeration in the country, Delhi's populace has highly attuned political antennae

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Electoral Officials carrying election material leave for their respective polling stations on the eve of Delhi Assembly Election in New Del;hi on Friday/PHOTO-DALIP KUMAR

Sunil Sethi
Whichever way Delhi votes today — and there’s a fair consensus on who the chief minister next week will be — the contest to rule the city-state is distinct from others in recent memory. First, the action has shifted from the streets to daily non-stop barracking in the media and social media. No vigorous door-to-door campaigning, as in 2015, when Aam Aadmi Party volunteers collected modest contributions to cleanse a corrupt body politic with its jhadoo symbol. “Na khaunga, na khane dunga” (I won’t be bribed, nor let anyone else pay bribes) Narendra Modi famously said when he led the
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