AAP plans to do a Delhi in holy city Varanasi

NEW DELHI: AAP plans to do a Delhi in Varanasi. In what promises to be an eyeballgrabbing poll campaign, the party will combine door-todoor visits with ‘gupshup over chai’ along with a strong social media campaign that will stretch over a month after April 10.

Door-to-door campaigning had proved to be the tipping point in AAP’s Delhi campaign, especially in the New Delhi assembly constituency , where Kejriwal fought against former Delhi CM Sheila Dikshit. At the end of the campaign, while Dikshit appeared to be aloof and unconnected to the voter, AAP volunteers had visited each of the 30,000 homes thrice.

The party plans to adopt a similar ‘aam aadmi’ approach . “Kejriwal will walk down the narrow bylanes, knock on people’s doors and take their questions. He can do what Modi can’t … be accessible to people who can question him, air their doubts and their disappointments,” said a senior AAP leader.

The slogan, “Ab to Sheila hari hai, ab Modi ki bari hai’ ’ (Sheila Dikshit has lost, now it’s Narendra Modi’s turn) will challenge Modi’s “Har har Modi, har ghar Modi’ ’ even as AAP readies to bombard people with “evidence’ ’ against Modi’s claims of development in Gujarat.

A two-page “fact-sheet ” includes details on gas pricing , problems faced by farmers due to land-grabbing by Gujarat government for major industrialists, allegations pertaining to Mukesh Ambani’s Swiss bank accounts , Modi’s stance on FDI, the decline of small and medium industries and criticism of the media.