India, Jan. 25 -- Congress's New Delhi constituency candidate Sandeep Dikshit, who is also a former MP, discussed the upcoming Delhi elections and his party's vision for the national capital with HT. Edited excerpts:

The Congress was in power for 15 years but did not get a single seat in the last two elections. What went wrong?

I think the atmosphere in 2011-13, when the Government of India was put under the scanner and the 'India Against Corruption' movement was strong, swayed the public and damaged us badly. But as time has shown, 99.9% of what they said was false. Not a single case of misdemeanour or corruption was found either by the AAP or the BJP. In Delhi, Mrs Dikshit (Sheila Dikshit) used to tell us that she's built a Delhi whic...