Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut on Sunday hit out at Delhi Chief Minister and AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal, saying that he should not be holding door-to-door campaigns in Goa at a time when the national capital is witnessing a rise in COVID-19 cases.

“Delhi CM is doing door-to-door campaigns in Goa despite increasing cases in Delhi. What’s the need? He can just convey his message…If his party (AAP) is so strong why would Delhi CM (visit Goa). He is needed more in Delhi where cases are increasing,” Raut said.

The Shiv Sena leader also said that his party will contest between 10 to 15 Assembly seats in Goa, adding that NCP leaders are also coming to the state.

With Goa Assembly elections just a month away, Kejriwal, who reached Goa on Saturday, has joined his party’s candidates in their door-to-door campaign. 

“Voters in Goa are looking for a change. There are issues like unemployment which needs to be addressed,” the AAP leader told reporters.

“The voters feel that the AAP government will resolve their issues. All the guarantees announced by us, including providing free and interrupted electricity supply, unemployment allowance, reservation in employment for locals, will be fulfilled,” he added, PTI reported.

Goa will go to elections in a single phase on February 14 and the results will be announced on March 10.

The AAP has so far released two lists of candidates for the next month’s polls, nominating former BJP ministers Mahadev Naik, Alina Saldanha and lawyer-turned-politician Amit Palekar.

Other political parties that are in the election fray include traditional contestants like contestants BJP, Congress, Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party, and the Goa Forward Party, and the new entrant Mamata Banerjee-led TMC.

In the 2017 Assembly elections for the 40-member Goa Assembly, the AAP had failed to open its account.