Undeterred by the lack of organisational set up and disinterest of their central leadership to campaign for them, the Aam Aadmi Party candidates of Uttarakhand are keeping their morale high. On Tuesday, a day before the polling all the AAP candidates of the State were engaged in hectic door to door campaign to woo the voters.
The AAP which is testing the electoral waters of the state for the first time in this ongoing general elections is fighting on its agenda of freeing the system from corruption. First woman Director General of Police Kanchan Choudharay Bhattacharya who is the party candidate from Haridwar met party workers on Tuesday and finalised the preparation for voting day. Anoop Nautiyal who is trying to make the contest in Tehri lok Sabha triangular with his hectic campaign which matched with the Congress and BJP candidates told The Pioneer that he was overwhelmed by the love and support of the people during the campaign. Credited with bringing the 108 ambulance service in State Nautiyal personally called up many party workers of Tehri and asked them to bring maximum voters to booth.
Noted poet BS Cheema who is contesting from Nainital- Udham Singh Nagar constituency conducted door to door campaign in Rudrapur and adjoining areas. Cheema who is affectionately called Jan Kavi (poet of masses) by the locals told The Pioneer that an undercurrent is running through the State in support of AAP candidates. He said that the party workers are spending money from their pockets for campaigning. “Our workers are self-motivated and they are bringing their own food packets to do their duty as polling agents, as they know I cannot afford the expense” Cheema said.
The State convener of AAP and party candidate from Almora-Pithoragarh seat HC Arya said that people are fed up with both BJP and Congress and would vote for a change this time. Arya personally met many social activists and prominent people of his constituency on Tuesday and took meeting of party workers for booth level management.