Mainstream parties seem afraid of making campaign forays into these parts—dominated by Maoist rebels—to reach villages in remote forest areas. “Neither BJP nor Congress workers are able to venture into the interiors,” says Sanket Thakur, state coordinator of the election campaign for the AAP. But he claims that volunteers of the AAP have no problems in reaching out to adivasis here and have nothing to fear. Lack of finances does not seem to bother the candidate either. “I’ve just Rs 415 in the bank,” says Soni Sori. She is also expected to make appearances in different courts every week in connection with “false cases” filed against her by the Chhattisgarh police. She’s been acquitted in five cases, but the other cases take up both time and money. “Even in the case in which I have been granted bail by the Supreme Court, I am required to regularly appear before the police and the court,” she says with a wry smile. The odds, she admits, are stacked against her, but she’s not one to give up without putting up a good fight. “My struggle and my fight will continue.”