AAP relies on video film to fight BJP MP's

NEW DELHI: To counter BJP's 300 MPs who will campaign for the party in the coming few days, AAP has taken recourse to projectors. While it has been showing a 40-minute film across the city for a couple of weeks now, the frequency of screenings have been intensified and the party is claiming that it is managing to reach more than 2 lakh people daily.

The film, which has a 20-minute speech by the AAP chief, also helps since Arvind Kejriwal's schedule is likely to be packed in the next two months and he will be unable to visit every small party meeting.

"There are few star campaigners in AAP and all will be given a schedule to address public meetings. We may get some special people to campaign from outside Delhi too. However, if we are to reach out to a large number of people, we have found our projectors extremely effective. Each of the 70 assembly constituencies has been given four projectors. They are being used for four shows a day and we are getting an average of 200-300 people for each sabha. At this rate, around 2.24 lakh people are seeing AAP's campaign material each day," said a party worker.

The 40-minute video has a 12-minute film on the formation of the AAP government in Delhi, work done by it in 49 days and why it quit. There is a separate segment based on the film Nayak and songs which includes one especially done for the party by composer singer Vishal Dadlani on 'paanch saal Kejriwal'.

The shows are being held largely in JJ colonies, unauthorized and resettlement colonies where the party already had a fan following and is most likely to draw large crowds. "BJP's meetings are barely being attended. So far, there have been 50-odd people at its meetings addressed by its MPs. AAP's aim is to reach the largest number of people in these two months," said a senior party functionary.

"These shows will prepare the ground for our door-to-door campaign expected to start by Monday where volunteers will meet people in each household individually and discuss not just the party's message but also details of the Delhi Dialogue. Meanwhile, we are preparing a schedule for other senior members who will speak at jan sabhas in constituencies," the senior functionary added.