Kalkaj seat's political dynamics have shifted in the last four elections, with victories going to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Indian National Congress.
Across three slums in Delhi, including in Seemapuri and Kalkaji, Scroll found a strong sense of dissatisfaction towards the AAP government. The anger in Delhi’s poorest quarters is significant.
Every day, Geeta Sharma uses her pink ticket to board bus number 623 from her Kotla-Mubarakpur home to Vasant Vihar, a distance of about nine kms, where she cleans houses from 7 AM to 2 PM.