KARAN S DALAL, 62, Congress

PALWAL

Educational qualification:

MBA, LLB

MLA’s electoral record:

A veteran Congress leader, Dalal started his political career as a student leader and was elected president of students union at Gurgaon Government College. He has been elected to the state assembly in 1991, 1996, 2000, 2005 and in 2014.

Constituency primer: At about 2.22 lakh voters, the constituency has three urban local bodies, 10 police stations and 257 gram panchayats. Palwal, which became the 21st district of the state in 2008, is situated on Delhi-Mathura highway, 60-km from national capital. The rural constituency has total 282 villages.

Electoral history:

2014: Congress’ Karan Singh Dalal defeated Deepak Mangla of BJP by 5,642 votes

2009: Subash Choudhary of INLD defeated Dalal of Congress by over 6,000 votes.

2005: Dalal of Congress defeated INLD nominee by over 28,000 votes.

How he performed: Ruing lack of adequate water for agriculture and drinking, Dalal alleges that the BJP government has failed to develop his constituency as neither new projects nor those started by Congress were

By the way: implemented. There are, he says, no new avenues for employment and industry Dalal is an avid walker besides air pollution menace. As to his and covers 10-km own role as a legislator, Dalal claims he every day had raised maximum number of questions in the state assembly and cornered the government on its non-performance.