With an aim to reach out to voters, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) will launch its second phase of campaigning for the upcoming General Elections on April 10. The AAP would reach to public, including the working-class population, and tell them about the importance of full Statehood to Delhi.
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Delhi convener Gopal Rai on Monday said the booth-level workers of the party would go to people, instead of calling them to public meetings.
The party has designed a three-tier campaign in the first phase of which 1,000 teams will go door to door, covering seven Lok Sabha constituencies divided into 560 zones, and distribute the Delhi chief minister’s letter to people on full statehood.
“In the first phase, we held jan sabhas with people, now we will go to the people, including the working class, and tell them about the importance of full statehood,” he said. Rai added that the campaigning would be held in three phases and the second phase would start from April 10. “We will be engaging 13,814 booth heads and train them over the next two days to convey the message of importance of full statehood to the people,” he said.
In the second phase, all AAP legislators will hold extensive campaigning in their constituencies. They will together hold around 1,500 street meetings. Apart from this, the party is also preparing extensive campaigning through rallies by Kejriwal. In the third phase of campaigning, AAP will field “star campaigners” in rallies and street meetings.
Rai claimed that his party’s first phase of campaigning had pushed the BJP on the “backfoot”. “The BJP, which had thought it would have a walkover in Delhi, is now confused about which candidates should be fielded,” he said.
He said if the Congress is confident of winning in Punjab without an alliance; his party is also capable of winning all the seats in Delhi on its own. Questioning Congress leader Randeep Surjewala’s statement where he said his party was not in talks with the AAP or any other party for an alliance in Haryana and Punjab, Rai asked whether the Congress has forgotten about its loss in the bypolls in Jind. “I do not understand why Congress is so self obsessed. It appears that it is in a state of maha-confusion,” he said.