Muslims are a sizeable population in Chandni Chowk, North East Delhi and East Delhi parliamentary constituencies. AAP’s North East Delhi candidate Dilip Pandey said, “The work the AAP government has done in the last four years is unmatched. In East Delhi Municipal Corporation, the difference between the vote share of the Congress ( 22.8%) and the AAP ( 23.4%) was just 0.6%. This was one of the reasons why the recent move by the Delhi Waqf Board to give increased honorarium/salary to imams and muezzins had the BJP and the Congress seeing red. Amanatullah Khan, chairman of the Delhi Waqf Board, had said, “Delhi Waqf Board is an autonomous body.

Source: Hindustan Times April 30, 2019 00:33 UTC