New Delhi: Keeping BJP away from power is what both Congress and Aam Admi Party have been promising while convincing the Muslim population across the Capital. However, a deeper look at many of the majority Muslim population areas clearly indicates a division of votes between AAP and Congress. Voters in areas like Zakir Nagar, Batla House, Okhla Vihar, Noor nagar, Shaheen Bagh and Abul Fazal in the East Delhi gave a mixed response when it came to choice between the candidates from AAP and Congress. The voters in areas like Seelampur, Jafrabad, Maujpur, Mustafabad in North East Delhi also gave mixed reactions when it came to vote between the two parties which are seen as a aletrnative to BJP. "Though Atishi is a good candidate but we have to see who can defeat BJP in a longer run, Congress is a comparitively old and experinced party. So when it comes to voting for member of Parliament the choice is clear," says an Okhla Vihar voter who did not wish to be named.
In East Delhi AAP's Atishi is seen into a tough fight between BJP's Gautam Gambhir and Congress Arvinder Singh Lovely. However, Lovely might not have a cake walk in the Muslim majority areas given his short stay with BJP earlier. "How can Arvinder Singh Lovely be trusted, had the Congress fielded some other candidate fom East Delhi other than him things would have been different. The span of his stay doesn't matter, what matters is he went to BJP and returned," says another voter from East Delhi. In North east Delhi, sources say Shiela Dikshit might reep the benefit being an symbol of development of Delhi and an experinced politician than her conterparts BJP's Manoj Tiwari and AAP's Dilip Pandey. Though people do believe that if an allianace between the two parties AAP and Congress would have taken place things would have been different and BJP would have come into a tough situation.