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MARGAO: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) launched its campaign to connect with Margao constituents from Ward no 22.
The campaign was launched after covering ground and establishing organizational structure from bottom to top — booth level to constituency level.
AAP convener Rajashree Nagarsekar launched the campaign on Wednesday, from Silvergate Estate, Aquem with a corner cum tea meeting.
People all over Goa, including Margao, have expressed a dire need for credible change and have pinned their hopes on AAP. Many of Margao constituents had directly hit out at AAP for lack of activities in Margao. “However, as the policy of the party goes, we were waiting for the right people to join as volunteers to take up the work of changing the system. Now that we have the support of locals as volunteers, we are ready to take the plunge,” Nagarsekar said.
She said that an enthusiastic response to the door to door activity in the area sometime ago had indicated that people want change. That people want change became evident when it came to light that the people in the ward, who once supported the former chief minister Digambar Kamat, had recently voted against the Kamat’s panel at the MMC elections, she said.
“For the party which rides on an anti-corruption plank, the Margao seat is significant given that the sitting MLA is tainted in with corruption and mining scams,” she said.
Moreover, the MLA who served as Goa’s chief minister for a full term, has failed miserably to carry out any development in Margao, she said pointing out to “the ailing hospicio hospital, lack of a proper bus stand and civic woes.”
“However, since we were concentrating on other constituencies of Salcete, the work in Margao had not been started aggressively. But, with the launch of this campaign, AAP will set the ball rolling to galvanise support and build our organisation from bottom up in the run up to the coming assembly elections,” Nagarsekar said.
AAP informed that its volunteers have been organised to start an aggressive door to door campaign.
