"Very Different Elections This Time": AAP's Goa Chief Minister Candidate Amit Palekar

Mr Palekar said the people's response to AAP in the state has been "amazing" and it's all set to form the new government.

Corruption and unemployment are the biggest issues in Goa and the people of the state want a change in leadership, Aam Aadmi Party's Chief Ministerial candidate for Goa Amit Palekar told NDTV. "Two out of three people of the state are unemployed, and it's because of rampant corruption in the government," he added. Pitching his party as "grounded", he said they have reached out to the people through door-to-door campaigning and the voters have connected to the party. "Our confidence doesn't come from thin air," he said while claiming that AAP will form the next government in the coastal state.

Dismissing apprehensions that it's a newcomer to the state, he said that the party has dug its heels since the last elections and expanded its network of cadres and volunteers to all parts of the state. "You are going to see a very different election this time in the state," he said, adding that his party has gone to the people and taken note of their hopes and aspirations for the state.

Mr Palekar claims that it's the AAP, and not the opposition party Congress, that has highlighted corruption and scams in the state and served as the true opposition to the government without having even one MLA in the state assembly.

"The way things have moved in last few months, and a few years, is that people have got connected to us. And people are looking at us as the only alternative for weeding out corruption as far as this present government is concerned," he said.