NEW DELHI: To repeat the success it tasted in Punjab earlier this year, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is once again tapping the support of the Non-Resident Indians for the upcoming assembly elections in Gujarat.Party’s overseas chapter is reaching out to Gujarati immigrants in USA, the UK and Australia and holding awareness campaigns and political meetings to get votes and funds. The AAP volunteers have been displaying the Delhi model of governance and flagging the drawbacks of GST and demonetization to win over the Gujaratis abroad.AAP’s overseas volunteers had organized a number of political activities in various countries abroad in the run up to assembly polls in Punjab in March this year and several of them had even camped in India to campaign for the party. The overseas volunteers had also contributed in 2015 Delhi elections. AAP receives a significant percentage of donations from abroad.The party has so far announced candidates for 20 assembly seats in Gujarat, senior party leaders accept they need to put up an impressive electoral performance to be in reckoning as a national party. Party functionaries said messages from well-settled Gujaratis in USA and the UK where they live in large number and have professionally done well carry significant influence which AAP wants to capitalize on in the polls.AAP Overseas media head Ankit Lal said the party has held several big and small meetings abroad in past one and a half month. “The economy slump (in India) in the last two years is a hot topic of discussion (among NRIs). The Gujarati immigrants who are engaged in businesses share their opinions on the issue,” said Lal. Also “poor implementation of GST and demonetisation” are subjects of discussion in the overseas gatherings. The same subjects are driving on-ground election campaign AAP has launched in Gujarat and the party is trying to establish a connect between the Gujarati immigrants and the voters through these subjects of discussion.“The NRIs are holding conferences with voters in Gujarat through Google hangouts to urge them to vote for AAP,” said Lal. In a similar event held in Wembley in the UK recently on the theme ‘Restore the Glory of Gujarat’, AAP volunteers sent out video messages urging voters to come out in support of the party.The election for 182 member Gujarat assembly will be held in two phases on December 9 and 14.