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Sanjay BumbrooTribune News ServicePanchkula, October 17With two days remaining for the campaigning political parties are eyeing slum dwellers and voters living at Ashiana flats in the city, which has a sizeable chunk of voters. There are also three illegal colonies, including Gandhi Colony in Mansa Devi Complex and Madrasi Colony in Maheshpur village. There are 2,072 Ashiana flats located at Sector 20, 26, 28 and Abhaypur village in the Industrial Area, Phase I, built by the then Ambala MP Kumari Selja under the Central Government-sponsored Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission. Senior Congress leader Ravinder Rawal said Congress had built flats for slum dwellers. “People in these flats and other slums in the city know that only the Congress can resolve their issues,” he added..