NEW DELHI: Aam Aadmi Party has set up a ‘war room’ at its headquarters on Deen Dayal Upahdyay Marg to monitor its preparations, campaigning, public meetings and events related to the May 25 Lok Sabha elections in the capital. It was launched by AAP’s Delhi convener Gopal Rai and national secretary Pankaj Gupta.
The party is contesting on four seats – East Delhi, South Delhi, New Delhi and West Delhi – while Congress, its alliance partner, has fielded candidates on the remaining three.
Party functionaries said the ‘war room’ would help AAP take its poll campaign forward in a more organised manner and with greater momentum. A similar facility was set up by the party during the MCD elections in 2022.
Rai said the teams at the war room would oversee the election activities in a systematic manner. Apart from appointing one coordinator each for four parliamentary constituencies, the party has set up 12 different sections, each with an in-charge for separate constituencies, to coordinate the activities on ground. The 12 sections include social media, digital media, campaign management, data management, research, logistics and legal.
Rai said the party volunteers collected a lot of data from ground during its recent door-to-door and ‘Jail ka jawab, vote se’ campaigns, and the 12 teams would use this data in the third phase of canvassing that started on Saturday. AAP will now organise ‘sankalp sabhas’, which are corner meetings with the public, every day.
He added that the party had also started making arrangements to help the candidates file nomination next week and necessary permissions were being taken from agencies concerned.
“This time, AAP is not contesting the elections. Rather, the people of Delhi are contesting the polls and this has sent shivers down the BJP’s spine. The way the chief minister was arrested, the people of Delhi are getting ready to respond to this dictatorship and answer the arrest with their votes,” Rai said.
Gupta said the party volunteers visited lakhs of houses during the door-to-door campaign and took feedback from people. “While roadshows are starting on Saturday, we have several campaigns lined up for the coming weeks. All the candidates are working in their respective fields. This time the people of Delhi will defeat BJP on all seven seats,” Gupta said.
He added that heads of all teams would sit together in the war room for better coordination among them.
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