Besides “unkept promises”, what actually may hurt the Congress is the food inflation “Our household budgets have gone haywire with even onions and tomatoes becoming a luxury. We want change but the alternative is just not worth voting for,” said Abdul Gaffar, a local trader.
He said schools and hospitals in the area are in “bad shape” and despite repeated requests nothing has been done to improve their condition.
When asked, Yusuf, however, claimed that lot of developmental works have been carried out in the area in the last five years and exhuded confidence of his victory. The constituency has a total of 1,28,946 voters out of which 56,980 are women and 71,963 are men.