20 roadshows, 8 town halls: Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal to switch gears

NEW DELHI: Chief minister Arvind Kejriwal is likely to hold over 20 roadshows in the next few days as AAP seeks to switch gears in the final round of campaigning. The first roadshow will begin on Wednesday from Burari and cover Badli and Adarsh Nagar. This will be followed by another in the evening and will start from Krishna Nagar and culminate at Shahdara.
With the deadline to file nominations having expired on Tuesday, AAP has now decided to intensify its campaign.Deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia, MP Sanjay Singh and other senior party functionaries will organise public meetings and rallies in different parts of the city.
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“Kejriwal will hold a series of town halls, the first of which will take place at Siri Fort Auditorium on Thursday. From there, up to January 30, seven more town halls will be conducted. The roadshows and public meetings will continue alongside. We are all geared up for the campaign,” AAP Delhi convener Gopal Rai said.
Piling up pressure on BJP, the party dared it to disclose the name of its chief ministerial face. Rai said neither BJP nor Congress had anyone in their ranks to pose a real challenge to an honest and hardworking chief minister like Kejriwal. “BJP is trying to cobble together a coalition to gain some measure of confidence to face AAP in the election,” Rai claimed.
In the town halls, the CM will interact with people and elaborate on the achievements of AAP government in the last five years, apart from presenting a road map for the next five. He will also brief people on the guarantee card recently released by the party, which promised free bus rides for students and deployment of “mohalla marshals” for women’s security, among other things.
The guarantee card, which also promised to continue the scheme for free electricity up to 200 units, health facilities and to plant 2 crore saplings in the national capital over the next five years, will be taken to people through a door-to-door campaign, which will continue till February 2. Party volunteers have been asked to reach out to 35 lakh households in this regard.
The party has said that the “10 guarantees” is not a manifesto and a comprehensive document will be released in a week.
The party will give extensive training to volunteers on Thursday to boost the campaign. AAP is creating a separate plan for the candidates too. This will focus on two aspects — nukkad sabha and padyatra. “The last phase of our election campaign will be three-tiered — one by Arvind Kejriwal and other functionaries, another by our candidates and, the third, by the volunteers,” Rai said, adding that the party hoped to convince Delhi to even better the previous election result, where the party had won 67 of the 70 seats.