New Delhi, Jan. 29 -- Known as a stronghold of AAP, the Okhla Assembly constituency will see a fierce electoral battle between the sitting two-term AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan, Congress' candidate Ariba Khan and BJP's candidate Manish Chaudhary. Moreover with the entry of Asaduddin Owaisi's All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) declaring Shifa-ur-Rehman as its candidate, who is currently in jail as an accused in the Delhi riots case, the elections are expected to be polarising.
The seat, located in the East Delhi Lok Sabh seat, is an urban area near the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border and is one of Delhi's oldest inhabited regions along the Yamuna river. It saw a long dominance of the Congress before it went to the ruling party for the co...