Balancing herself carefully on a chair outside her two-room home in Pandav Nagar, close to the Yamuna river in East Delhi, the 70-year-old Mitra Devi combed her hair and soaked up the winter sun as election campaign vehicles passed by.
Having spent her life in the neighbourhood, Devi said she never thought of travelling far outside Delhi "until my son" and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal took her on a pilgrimage to Shirdi in Maharashtra.
As much as the elderly in Pandav Nagar praise the Kejriwal government for its pilgrimage scheme, they rue the lack of development under party MLA Vijender Garg Vijay.
Pandav Nagar comes under the Rajinder Nagar Assembly constituency.
Residents complained of dirty water supply, overflowing sewers and potholed roads. The lanes of Budh Nagar, another neighbourhood under the constituency, have wires creeping dangerously overhead and people live in constant fear of a potential fire tragedy.
Provided with the negative feedback, the ruling AAP has replaced Garg with Raghav Chadha, a chartered accountant who lives in the upper-middle class New Rajinder Nagar, in this election.
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Chadha is pitted against BJP veteran R P Singh, a 58-year-old advertising professional from the same neighbourhood, and Congress's Rocky Tuseed, the youngest candidate in the February 8 election.
Tuseed, 25, and Chadha, 31, are fighting their first assembly election.
Chadha last year unsuccessfully contested the Lok Sabha election from South Delhi.
Tuseed, a former president of the Delhi University Students' Union, comes from the Jat-dominated pocket of Dasghara, around three kilometers from New Rajinder Nagar.
Singh, BJP's Sikh face, is also the party's national secretary and often represents it on TV debates.
He won from the constituency in 2013 Delhi polls but lost to Garg in 2015.
Chadha and Singh are Punjabi, who constitute over 40 percent of the constituency population.
After Partition, thousands of Sikh families from Pakistan made Rajinder Nagar their home.
But the demography has changed over the years in Pandav Nagar, Inderpuri and Naraina Vihar.
Hari Prakash, 52, who came to Delhi 30 years ago from Bihar's Siwan district, now runs a gift shop in Budh Nagar. Like him, many Purvanchalis have settled in different parts of the constituency.
Pointing to a drain spurting sewage, Prakash said he has never seen anyone attending to it.
"We cannot count how many representations we made to municipal corporation officials and the local MLA, but we got hollow promises," he complained.
BJP's Singh said when people elected him in 2013, he sanctioned Rs 40 crore for management of drains. "The AAP MLA (elected in 2015) never bothered about it... The project is stuck."