I live and vote here, pay my taxes here, but watch decisions about my own city's policing and land get made by people I didn't even elect -- that disconnect between representation and actual power feels like a broken promise of what democracy is supposed to mean.
Delhi's unique status as the National Capital Territory was deliberately designed under Article 239AA specifically because full statehood would give a local government control over central government institutions and security infrastructure physically located within the same city -- a genuine structural tension unlike any other state capital.