Friday, January 20 2006 14:13 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

New Delhi: Dogged by dissidence in ruling Congress, Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit has described it as a 'constraint' of her chair, which had to be overcome.

Dikshit, who has been facing increasing dissidence within ruling Congress party with her detractors terming her 'outsider', said "it was part of the game" but indicated that she could do without it.

Amid a full-blown controversy over MCD's demolition drive in the national capital, a visibly relaxed chief minister in an interview to sources made it clear that for her the trust of the people of Delhi was important and the rest was all part of the game.

Asked whether she had raised the issue of dissidence with Congress President Sonia Gandhi, she said, "I have, but I also feel that the Congress President has the whole nation to look after. We must be able to look after ourselves".

"Naturally there are constraints in this particular chair, but we have to overcome them and we shall," she added.

Rubbishing the 'outsider tag' thrust on her, Dikshit said the people of the city have accepted her leadership by giving the mandate in her favour for two consecutive times.

Maintaining that "everybody is an outsider in Delhi", Dikshit said though she was clinically born in Punjab she spent all her life in the national capital.

"I have studied here. I was clinically born in Punjab, but all may education was in Delhi, I was married in Delhi and then went out of Delhi. People go in and out," she said.