Team Goemkarponn
Panaji: The Aam Aadmi Party has mounted one of its most intensive Zilla Panchayat campaigns in Salcette, with MLA Capt. Venzy Viegas leading a sustained outreach effort across the Benaulim and Colva constituencies.
Over the past several weeks, Capt. Venzy has conducted more than fifty manifesto meetings and health camps, creating what is being seen as one of the most extensive ground-level engagements in Goa’s ZP election season. Held ward by ward, these meetings were designed to gather local grievances and translate them into practical manifesto commitments drafted directly from public feedback.
The MLA has kept his approach straightforward. Meet every voter. Listen to every concern. Build a ZP team that mirrors the aspirations of the constituency. This method has earned AAP consistent praise from residents who say the party’s decentralised manifesto-building process gives them a genuine voice in shaping development priorities.
People in both constituencies say the constant documentation of their suggestions marks a break from symbolic consultations often seen during election cycles. They argue that by grounding the manifesto in actual neighbourhood issues, AAP’s ZP candidates have managed to forge deeper and more credible connections on the ground.
Capt. Venzy said the campaign is driven by the belief that local development must arise from lived challenges and firsthand input, not from distant or generic political promises. He added that the team is determined to win both Benaulim and Colva, and that the momentum on the ground reflects this resolve. The manifesto meetings, he said, will guide post-election development in both areas.
The party underlined that the sheer scale of the outreach – from meetings and interactions to health camps and booth-level coordination – signals the seriousness with which it is contesting the two seats. This groundwork-heavy model, AAP said, is also what distinguishes the party from conventional political styles that rely more on top-down messaging than direct community engagement.
Backed by strong public response and visible on-ground mobilisation, AAP is now looking to translate the trust built through its grassroots campaign into clear victories in Colva and Benaulim.
