Kejriwal urges voters to strengthen hands of AAP

Delhi Chief Minister and AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal Sunday urged people to strengthen the hands of his party by voting for them.

Kejriwal held three roadshows on Sunday in Delhi's North-East, West and Chandni Chowk parliamentary constituencies.

He urged the people to "strengthen the hands of the Aam Aadmi Party by voting for them in the upcoming polls".

"We have worked for you and will continue to work for you but you need to strengthen the hands of the party by voting for us," he said.

Hitting out at the incumbent BJP MPs, Kejriwal asked people not to vote this time for those "who do not show their faces after elections".

He urged people to not "waste" their votes by supporting the Congress as this time the "Congress candidates would lose their security deposits".

In each of the roadshows, he was accompanied by AAP candidates for the respective constituencies.

While he was accompanied by Pankaj Gupta in Chandni Chowk, the chief minister was flanked by Dilip Pandey in North-East Delhi. The AAP chief was accompanied in the West Delhi constituency by the party candidate Balbir Jakhar.

The roadshows came a day after the Delhi chief minister was slapped by a man in New Delhi constituency on Saturday.

With a week to go for the elections in Delhi, the AAP has intensified its campaigning by holding multiple roadshows of Kejriwal and adding star power to its campaign through participation of Gujarat MLA Jignesh Mevani and actor-politician Prakash Raj in AAP's roadshows.

Kejriwal's roadshows are part of the party's third phase of campaigning.

The third phase of campaign started from last Tuesday and would continue till the last day of campaigning.

The AAP has already held campaigning in two phases.

The first phase was from March 10 to April 7 while second phase was from April 10-April 25.

In the first phase, campaigning through jansabhas (public meetings) was carried out while door-to-door campaigning marked the second phase.

Delhi, which has seven Lok Sabha seats, goes to polls in the sixth phase on May 12.