Balram Jakhar's erstwhile constituency, which he first won in 1984.
In the next election, he was defeated by former Haryana chief
minister Devi Lal before winning it back in 1991, the losing
candidate this time being from the BJP. The Congress changed its
candidate in 1996, as did the BJP, but that did nothing to alter the
outcome.the tourists hurt.”

Six women hold the jacaranda flower in McDougall Street in Kirribilli, Sydney (Getty)

She has called for an official jacaranda festival to be organised and for the street to be made one-way for the six weeks the flowers are in bloom or have a small section closed completely to traffic.

A spokesman for the council said they were aware of the increasing popularity of the flowers and the problems they were causing.

Visitors pose for photographs on McDougall Street in November 2016 (Getty)

She said: “The feasibility and costs of a traffic management plan and a jacaranda festival are being considered for the future”.