The Sangam Vihar constituency is known for housing Asia's biggest unauthorised colony and is known to face a severe crisis in terms basic amenities including sewage lines, water supply, electricity, among others.
Voters from the Muslim and Jat community form major part of the constituency consists. Purvanchali voters are also present in significant numbers.
The incumbent MLA is AAP member Dinesh Mohaniya, who claims that his party has laid down 70% of the pipelines in the area. It may be noted that regularisation of unauthorised colonies has been a major poll promise of the Aam Aadmi Party.
AAP has renominated Mohaniya for his second term in the constituency. He will face SCL Gupta, who is contesting on a JD(U) ticket and Poonam Azad of Congress. There's no BJP candidate as it had a seat-sharing agreement with NDA partner JD(U).
Here is a brief profile of the Sangam Vihar seat:
Constituency Name: Sangam Vihar
Constituency Number: 49
Total voters: 1,09,250
Previous elections: AAP member Dinesh Mohaniya won the seat in both 2015 and 2013 elections after it emerged as an anti-corruption party.
In the Delhi Assembly Elections 2020, AAP will be contesting from all 70 seats for the assembly polls while BJP will be contesting on 67 seats, with its ally Janata Dal-United (JD-U) and Lok Janashakti Party (LJP) contesting on the remaining three seats.
On the other hand, Congress will fight on 66 seats and its ally Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) will fight on the remaining 4 seats.
Polling will be held at 13,750 polling stations. According to the poll body chief, total electors in the final electoral roll of the NCT of Delhi as on January 6, 2020, are 1,46,92,136.
The polls for all the seats will be held on February 8, 2020, and the results will be declared on February 11, 2020.
It is to be noted that in 2015, the Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) had a landmark victory after it secured 67 of the total 70 seats in the state legislature. The party is now eyeing a second consecutive term banking on freebies that it provided to Delhiites including free water, free electricity up to 200 units, free ride for women in DTC and cluster buses, among other measures.