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At a glance: Sheila Dikshit, the charismatic Delhi CM

New Delhi: In 1998, Congress president Sonia Gandhi took a big gamble, when she virtually parachuted Sheila Dikshit from the humdrum of dusty UP politics to the vortex of Delhi politics. Politics in Delhi Congress



Her advisers had told her that the demography in Delhi was changing. The days of Punjabi 'refugee' leaders like Madanlal Khurana and Kidarnath Sahni were almost over, and people from Bihar and eastern Uttar Pradesh had become the dominating vote banks. In came, Sheila from dusty Kannauj, her old constituency, to Delhi, and she has remained here ever since.