In 2008, when delimitation was carried out for Delhi’s parliamentary constituencies, all assembly segments in erstwhile South Delhi, except Kalkaji, went to the current Lok Sabha segments of New Delhi, East Delhi and the newly formed West Delhi. A large part of what used to be Outer Delhi once makes South Delhi today. It gave South Delhi, the assembly segments of Palam, Bijwasan, Mehrauli, Chhatarpur, Deoli, Ambedkar Nagar, Sangam Vihar, Tughlakabad and Badarpur. Together, according to the numbers pegged by the political parties, the three communities make almost one-third of the total voting population in South Delhi. In 2014 Lok Sabha elections, BJP’s Bidhuri had defeated AAP’s Devinder Sehrawat with 1.06 lakh votes.

Source: Hindustan Times May 11, 2019 17:15 UTC