Isudan Gadhvi joined AAP in June final 12 months.

New Delhi:

Arvind Kejriwal in the present day declared that former TV anchor Isudan Gadhvi could be the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)’s chief ministerial candidate for Gujarat, the place the celebration is campaigning aggressively to try to oust the ruling BJP.

Isudan Gadhvi, a former journalist and TV anchor, gained 73 per cent of the votes in an AAP survey on who ought to be its Gujarat chief minister face.

AAP put out a telephone quantity, asking individuals to name and identify their alternative.

The celebration had picked Bhagwant Singh Mann as its chief ministerial candidate in Punjab after the same ballot.

Isudan Gadhvi, 40, joined AAP in June final 12 months. He anchored one of the extremely rated TV information in Gujarat earlier than he debuted in politics.

“A humble farmer’s son like me has been given such a huge responsibility in Arvind Kejriwal’s politics,” Mr Gadhvi mentioned in an emotional speech after the announcement.

“I will try to do the best I can. God has given me everything. Now I want to give my fellow Gujaratis everything they need…I will serve the people until my last breath.”

Gopal Italia, the president of AAP’s Gujarat unit, was additionally within the race. It was Mr Italia who reached out to Mr Gadhvi final 12 months, setting in movement his initiation into politics and his entry into AAP. After a gathering with the AAP chief, his choice was sealed.

“Arvind Kejriwal told me, you raise issues of the common man, people like you should join politics. If people like you and I don’t join politics, then the corrupt people will have a free run. Politics is not my desire but my compulsion,” Mr Gadhvi mentioned.

Gujarat will vote on December 1 and 5 and the outcomes will probably be declared on December 8.

Mr Gadhvi belongs to the Other Backward Class (OBC), which accounts for 48 per cent of Gujarat’s inhabitants.

AAP has mounted a mega marketing campaign in Gujarat, decided to disrupt what has historically been a BJP versus Congress struggle and emerge as the primary rival to the ruling celebration.