Kejriwal to launch AAP''s door-to-door campaign

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, October 20

Aam Aadmi Party convenor and Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will launch a campaign from tomorrow asking for votes and donations from residents of his New Delhi Assembly constituency for the 2019 Lok Sabha (LS) election, the party said.

Beside Kejriwal, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, all cabinet ministers, MLA, office bearers and others will start the campaigning from tomorrow. The AAP said that Kejriwal would visit door-to-door asking for vote and donations.

"Huge door-to-door campaign starts tomo. We will reach every voter n explain why they shud vote AAP n not BJP, how voting for Cong in Del will mean voting for BJP. We will also ask for donations from each voter(sic)," Kejriwal tweeted.

The AAP leaders and workers, including Deputy CM Manish Sisodia, will also approach people for votes and donations across the city in the campaign that will continue till announcement of the LS election next year.

The party will endeavour to convince the voters to support AAP by explaining them the "failures" of the sitting BJP members of the Parliament in Delhi and the achievements of the party government, it said.

Kejriwal had launched the party's donation campaign "Aap Ka Daan, Rashtra Ka Nirman," at Talkatora stadium here on Monday.

The party has announced its incharges for Lok Sabha polls for all the seven parliamentary seats currently held by BJP MPs in Delhi.

"An important element of the campaign will be to inform the voters that seven LS MPs should be those who can strengthen the hands of the Kejriwal government. What is important is who thinks about the welfare of Delhi and not who will be the Prime Minister of the country," it said.

Party volunteers will ask people to compare the performance of seven BJP MPs with that of the Arvind Kejriwal government during the campaign.

They will inform people about "cheap" electricity in Delhi, free water, major improvement in Delhi government schools, free treatment, control of fee hike by private schools and performance of Mohalla Clinics.

The AAP will also "strongly" raise the issue of metro fare hike and sealing drive, during the LS election campaign and will "expose the silence" of BJP MPs on these important issues, it said.