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Is Mr Modi going to become the next chief minister of Delhi? : Sheila Dikhsit

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"Is Mr Modi going to become the next chief minister of Delhi?" questions the former chief minister of Delhi, Sheila Dikhsit as she hangs her boots and makes an exit from active politics in the capital.

Dikshit who has been the chief minister of Delhi for three consecutive terms says that the voter is wise enough to understand that Narendra Modi is not going to be their representative and Kejriwal is not as clean as he projects himself to be. Dikshit is however quick enough to add that the Congress in the previous elections failed to understand the pulse of the people and so got this mandate.

Speaking to dna, Dikshit also said that in these times of crises within the Congress, former Congress MPs who have a winnability factor should come out to contest the elections.

Dikshit who herself had lost an MP election from Uttar Pradesh before entering Delhi politics, said, "I think MPs should not have an objection. MLAs become MPs and MPs become MLAs. Ajay Maken was an MLA and then became and MP and so forth…" Maken and Dikshit have been arch political rivals and a section within the Congress want Maken to contest the assembly while the leader himself is not keen.

Dikshit also feels that instead of looking for a face to be projected in this election, the bigger challenge for Congress is to get the public mandate. "There was a lot that we could have done. But I think the people had got fatigued of the Congress and we failed to realise that," she says.

While party is yet to regain its lost grounds, Dikhsit says that the voter in Delhi is very intelligent. Taking a dig at the BJP and AAP, Congress veteran says, "This time the BJP riding on Modi wave. But people of Delhi should remember that they gave Delhi three chief ministers in five years. AAP ran away in 50 days. It's the Congress which gave good governance to Delhi."

While a section within the Congress and the exit poll surveys have wiped out the Congress yet again, Dikshit feels that this election is going to be tri-cornered and Congress voters who had drifted away in
previous election, will come back. "People have realised that AAP has no political ideology. They stand against corruption, but there is enough corruption brewing within. One needs to know from where they
get so much money to spend on advertisement campaigns and to put up billboards?" she says.

The former CM who had been at the helm of affairs in previous four assembly election, is yet to hear from its state unit. "I have been doing whatever the party has asked me to. But I have not yet been
consulted by the state unit."

While Delhi is as critical for Congress as for the BJP and AAP, Congress is yet to get into the serious poll mode. In the absence of a team, Dikshit feels that the challenge has increased. "The role of PCC
president to charge the workers. The workers look for positions and PCC should give them one to keen them motivated," adds Dikshit, who has also served as a PCC President in the past.

Besides the work done by Congress party in the last 15 years, the Congress plans to highlight the unfulfilled promises of the BJP and AAP as it will go out seeking votes. "The voter needs to know that the successful Mars Orbit Mission and Induction of INS Kolkata did not happen in two months. The Swacch Bharat Abhiyan has been nothing, but a beautiful photo oppotunity for the BJP. We have been lying low, because we wanted to give them some time. But the Congress will come out strongly as we near polls," she adds.

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