AAP bets on door-to-door campaign for Goa elections

NEW DELHI: Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party ( AAP) will soon start its tried-and-tested poll strategy of door-to-door campaigning in all the 40 assembly constituencies in Goa that goes to poll on February 4.

AAP’s chief ministerial candidate Elvis Gomes will lead the door-todoor campaign along with other local party leaders such as Oscar Rebello and Valmiki Naik, party leaders told ET. Door-to-door campaigning has been a touchstone of AAP’s poll strategy that helped it win the Delhi Assembly elections two years ago. While Kejriwal toured the state on January 7 and 8, addressing four public rallies, he is expected to return on January 24 for another round of public meetings.

Gomes, a former IGP (prisons) who took voluntary retirement last year, is contesting from Conculim in South Goa. AP has pitted him against Goa chief minister Laxmikant Parsekar on grounds of honest governance and a clean image since December 19 last year, when party leader Kejriwal announced him as AAP’s chief ministerial candidate.

“We are the only party that has declared a CM candidate so far,” said Ashish Talwar who is AAP’s election campaign in-charge of Goa.