Down but not out? Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party confident amid setback

AAP's Goa President Amit Palekar says the Congress has voters but it has no cadre. Therefore, AAP has chance

“Reinvent? We don’t need to reinvent ourselves. Our numbers may have gone down but our supporters are still with us,” Amit Palekar, chief of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) unit in Goa, told Business Standard on the phone from Panjim. 

Despite the precipitous loss of seats in Delhi in the Assembly elections (down from 62 seats to 22), Palekar asserts that the AAP got 43.57 per cent of the vote, just 4 per cent less than the share of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which is now in government in Delhi. (Along with its allies, the BJP got 47.15 per