India, Jan. 31 -- New Delhi

A Congress bastion from the late 1990s to 2015, the Bharatiya Janata Party won the Gandhi Nagar assembly constituency election in 2020 only for a second time. Seeking a consecutive win, the BJP is fielding 56-year-old Arvinder Singh Lovely, the former Delhi Congress head, against the Aam Aadmi Party's (AAP's) 60-year-old candidate Naveen Chaudhary, popularly known as Deepu Chaudhary, and Congress's 52-year-old candidate Kamal Arora, a businessman-turned-politician who was associated with the Congress for 16 years before joining the AAP in 2012 and returning for this year's polls.

The constituency, synonymous with its namesake market, is one of the country's biggest readymade garment hubs, according to traders...