Gujarat Assembly Elections 2022: Isudan Gadhvi is AAP's CM face for upcoming polls

Gujarat Assembly Elections 2022: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convener Arvind Kejriwal on Friday announced that Isudan Gadhvi will be the chief ministerial face of the party for the upcoming Gujarat Assembly elections. According to the AAP, the party has finalised the name of Gadhvi on the basis of the opinion submitted by the people of the state. 

Isudan Gadhvi held the post of joint general secretary of the Aam Aadmi Party. He entered into politics on June 14, 2021. Earlier to that, he was a former TV Journalist and worked with  Doordarshan and other news channels.

State unit president Gopal Italia, national general secretary Isudan Gadhvi and general secretary Manoj Soratihya were reportedly in the race for the top post. 

Last week, Kejriwal urged people to contact the party through SMS, WhatsApp, voice mail and e-mail to give their views about who should be the CM candidate from the party in the state, which is currently being ruled by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

He had said that people could submit their points of view till November 3 evening and on the basis of their opinions, the name of the party's chief ministerial face would be announced the next day.

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 on Thursday announced its ninth list of 10 candidates for the Gujarat polls, taking the number of candidates whose names have been announced so far to 118. Elections to the 182-member Gujarat Assembly will be held in two phases next month - on December 1 and 5, while votes will be counted on December 8.