The AAP has fielded candidates in all 13 wards that are going to polls, in which the BJP, the Congress and Swaraj Abhiyan backed independent candidate are also in fray.
"The Chief Minister is unlikely to campaign in the by-polls. He visits 22-30 constituencies every month on account of attending different functions and events. So there is an interaction with the public on daily basis," a senior party leader claimed.
The MCD polls are likely to prove a litmus test for all the parties. For the AAP, it will be a test to see whether Kejriwal's charisma, a year after its stupendous victory, still persists while the BJP is battling 9-year anti-incumbency.
More importantly, the wards that are witnessing by-polls are mostly those where incumbent AAP MLAs were councillors.