Chandrika Gera Dixit, also known as Delhi's Vada Pav Girl, is a street food vendor...

who recently become a viral sensation following her run-in with the Delhi Police and Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) officials.

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She is allegedly under the administration's pressure to close her Vada Pav stall in Sainik Vihar, Pitampura.

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handrika, originally from Indore, is extensively documenting her struggle against the bureaucratic forces

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that threaten to shut down her business — a pushcart named Mumbai ka famous Vada Pav (The Authentic Vada Pav).

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he Vada Pav girl. Chandrika Gera Dixit, a street vendor, quit her job at Haldiram and started a vada pav stall in Delhi’s Sainik Vihar.

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A video of Dixit crying on the phone while selling Vada Pav is doing rounds on the internet.

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She can be heard claiming that she has been facing pressure from officials of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) to remove her food stall.

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Let's go

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