Out of Darkness

Fifty-year-old Yamuna Devi, a widowed mother of four children, sits in the sun in her village at Dhobi Ghat, Kirbi Place, Delhi Cantonment, which, according to residents, has not had electricity for the last 20 years. Locals say the area has been ignored by a string of elected officials of the Bharatiya Janata party, which has long maintained a stronghold in the area, but they felt they didn’t have a choice other than to vote BJP.

Fifty-year-old Yamuna Devi, a widowed mother of four children, sits in the sun in her village at Dhobi Ghat, Kirbi Place, Delhi Cantonment, which, according to residents, has not had electricity for the last 20 years. Locals say the area has been ignored by a string of elected officials of the Bharatiya Janata party, which has long maintained a stronghold in the area, but they felt they didn’t have a choice other than to vote BJP. Earlier, when the Congress was in power, locals say they would steal electricity from municipal poles in the area, but this resulted in deaths, and the supply of electricity to the area was cut off. After the Aam Aadmi Party’s candidate NSG commando Surinder Singh was elected to power in the recent Assembly polls, locals harbour hope that electricity will return to their slum again

AAPDelhi CantonmentYamuna Devi

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Ashish Sharma

Ashish Sharma is an award-winning photojournalist with a lens that captures the 'moment' in its minutest detail. With over a decade in photojournalism, he is currently Deputy Photo Editor at Open Magazine

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