The Aam Aadmi Party campaign in Goa comes at a time when coronavirus cases in Delhi has seen a rise, leading to speculations that the national capital was expecting a second wave of the pandemic.
The Health Minister of Kerala, KK Shailaja, described Goa as a union territory of India with not sufficient hospitals to treat the novel coronavirus in her interview with the BBC
The online petition, which garnered around 4,200 signatories, asking Goa to be a 'free country' came under the radar of Goa Police after the NGO 'Revolutionary Indians' (RI) lodged a complaint against the accused.