AAP declares Isudan Gadhvi as their Chief Minister candidate for Gujarat elections
Aam Aadmi party’s chief, Arvind Kejriwal declared on Friday that Isudan Gadhvi would be the party’s chief ministerial candidate for the Gujarat Assembly elections taking place next month.
Aam Aadmi party’s chief, Arvind Kejriwal declared on Friday that Isudan Gadhvi would be the party’s chief ministerial candidate for the Gujarat Assembly elections taking place next month.
Gadhvi serves as the Aam Aadmi Party’s National Joint General Secretary and a member of the National Executive. He had previously worked in the media as a TV journalist, editor of VTV News, and host of the well-liked news programme Mahamanthan at VTV Gujarati.
The candidate was chosen based on the feedback the state’s people provided to the party. AAP state unit president Gopal Italia and general secretary Manoj Soratihya were also vying for the top position, in addition to national general secretary Gadhvi.
Kejriwal announced the name at a news conference in Ahmedabad. Kejriwal had invited people to get in touch with the party by SMS, WhatsApp, voice mail, and email last week to share their opinions about who should represent the party as the state’s chief minister in the state, which is now governed by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
“We will announce the result on November 4,” he had said last Saturday.
At that time, Kejriwal had also said, “During the Punjab elections, we had asked people as to who should be the next chief minister. People named Bhagwant Mann by a huge majority. And as per the wishes of the public, we made him chief minister.”
The AAP released its ninth list of ten candidates for the Gujarat elections on Thursday, bringing the total number of candidates who have been named so far to 118. The 182-member Gujarat Assembly will be chosen next month in two rounds of voting ,on December 1 and 5, with results announced on December 8.