margao its 930am on sunday and the chief ministers malbhat residence in margao is already crowded with his supporters waiting to meet their baba who is yet to return from a meeting arranged at one of his key voters house at aquem digambar kamat has now changed gears of his campaign preferring to meet voters in this manner the doortodoor meetings over its the closeddoor meetings with key voters that keeps kamat busy for most part of the day his meetings with supporters start as early as by 8am by 9am he chairs a meeting of the core committee of his campaign to discuss strategies its 1030am and the forest minister felipe neri rodrigues steps in he has to wait at his residence for close to half an hour before kamat arrives rodrigues is closeted with kamat in a meeting that stretches on for a very long time the discussion probably is with regards to the violence at velim the previous night kamats unscheduled meeting with the velim mla has resulted in the cms poll schedule for the day going haywire gadda owners numbering 5060 who had a scheduled appointment at 10am wait impatiently for rodrigues to exit so that they can get an audience with kamat prashant naik the associations president who is accompanying the gadda owners gets impatient we only want the chief minister to come out and meet them for not more than five minutes rest everything has been taken care of naik grumbles meanwhile the crowd is swelling and the modest flat cannot accommodate any more visitors the cms assistant pravin arsekar is a kind and affable person his meticulous scheduling of the appointments ensures that none is disappointed the cms better half asha now takes charge interacting politely with the supporters and visitors she makes sure everybody leaves feeling contended baba is busy at the moment i have taken note of what you have said i will convey it to baba soon she reassures them turning to party workers who have come for instructions she discusses the days arrangements with them women workers have also started entering in by now these ladies belong to self help groups and ashatai has taken on the responsibility of taking care of the selfhelp groups an insider informs this reporter among the visitors who have crowded at the cms residence many can be identified as those residing at moti dongor kamats vote bank vaini knows them by name and she makes sure everybody feels at home the meeting with the forest minister over kamat hurriedly steps out he wishes to know the programme ahead quick instructions follow as far as possible dont organize meetings in the open instead hold a number of small meetings in somebodys houses the election observers are keeping a close watch and the expenditure will be added in my account he warns them before rushing downstairs to his waiting car that will take him to another closed door meeting elsewhere the meeting over kamat is