It's now or never: Panag to voters

A fitness freak, AAP candidate starts her day early, goes campaigning in city door to door Amit Sharma Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, March 26 It's a strict fitness regime, including 50 push-ups and pull-ups, that marks the beginning of the day for model, actor-turned-politician and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) candidate Gulkirat Kaur Panag. She hits the road sharp at 7 am after having a cup of tea.

High on energy, Gulkirat, popularly known as Gul, prefers to walk to the doorstep of all residents with a message: "It's now or never".

Gul believes in fitness. She feels that a leader needs to be fit and full of energy. She goes out on a morning walk and exercises every morning before heading for the campaign.

Though Gul moves out on an empty stomach, she is full of energy, which was visible during her early morning campaign at Hallo Majra and Deep Complex today.

The dark and dingy lanes of Hallo Majra could not deter the Bollywood star from walking tirelessly through every nook and corner of the place for over three hours.

Gul's core team members accompany her, holding a mike and speaker and appealing to the voters to vote against corruption for a better India. Curious people peeped out of their windows to know what the commotion was all about.

While meeting voters and urging them to vote for the AAP, Gul mentions that educated people with a clean image have come together under the banner of the AAP and need their support. "Agar iss bar aap log hamara saath nahe denge, to phir koi dubara bahar nahin niklega", she told residents of the colony.

Jumping over stagnant water and on uneven roads, Gul went door to door, hugged women and called herself their daughter, who needed their support. She promised that she would take up issues which former MPs failed to deal with. Gul candidly and patiently heard the residents and laid out her agenda for the villages and colonies. She promised to make health care, education and sanitation focal points for development.

Targeted by opposition parties as an outsider, Gul makes it a point to clarify that as a young girl she went to Mumbai around 15 years ago to pursue her career. However, she was always connected to her roots in Chandigarh and Punjab.

In a bid to connect with the residents, Gul makes it a point to sit down with residents and have tea at their house. While all AAP supporters went ahead, Gul entered a house in Deep Complex and asked a family to get tea for her. She enjoyed her cup of tea sitting on a cycle parked outside the house.

Sticking to the day's schedule, Gul left Hallo Majra at around 10.15 am to have a light breakfast before further heading for a press conference at 11.15 am. Soon, she joined back the AAP campaigners in the Sector 7 market where she met shopkeepers and later residents of the area.

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