AAP Delhi State Convenor Gopal Rai inaugurates MCD War-Room, takes stock of arrangements

The Aam Aadmi Party has set up a unique 'MCD War-Room' to monitor its election preparations. AAP Delhi State Convenor and Cabinet Minister Shri Gopal Rai inaugurated the MCD War-Room, taking stock of the arrangement. Shri Gopal Rai said, "The War room will monitor the events of all star campaigners. Management of Jansamvads, listing of speakers, invitations to the public to be monitored from the MCD war room. A central team of lawyers is being formed to ensure successful nomination on all 250 seats, one lawyer is being appointed in each assembly. Aam Aadmi Party will contest MCD elections keeping in mind all its 10 focal points."

AAP Delhi State Convenor and Cabinet Minister Shri Gopal Rai said, “This War Room in the Aam Aadmi Party office is being launched to intensify the preparations of the party for the upcoming MCD elections. We will be using this War Room to monitor 10 different activities related to the MCD. The first would be to track the activities related to the ‘Jan Samvaad’ that is taking place in over 13,000 booths of the city. It will look into the issues of scheduling, preparing the list of speakers at these events and sending out invitations to the local residents.” He said, “The second activity this War Room will be engaged in would be to deal with the process of nomination – this is one of the most important procedures before an election. We will be creating a team of lawyers that will be engaged with the Central team as well as with those members who will be at the Vidhan Sabha with the aim to ensure that the entire process of nomination at all the 250 seats happens without any problems. The third team will deal with the election commission and will be engaged in getting the required permissions for all the events of the party. There will be another team engaged in the planning and all the other necessary requirements of the star campaigners for the party. They will deal with all the star campaigners of the party including the Delhi Chief Minister Shri Arvind Kejriwal. The monitoring of the social media campaign and the media campaign will also take place from this War Room. Another task that will be monitored from here is the campaign of the candidates who will be fighting the elections. The War Room will look at the public engagement of all these candidates. All the activities of the booth management including providing training will be taken care of at the War Room. The team handling logistic management that will deal with all the requirements of the candidates will also work out of this War Room.”

He concluded, “This War Room will work on all of these matters. It will have a campaign head for each of these activities and besides that we will have seven chiefs on ground based on the seven Lok Sabha constituencies. There will also be 14 district-wise in-charges. There will also be 250 people who will be the in-charge at the 250 wards. They will be the ones who will relay information about developments in the ward to the War Room.”