New Delhi:Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has nominated Isudan Gadhvi as the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) CM candidate for the upcoming Gujarat Assembly elections. The decision was reached on Friday on the basis of the opinion given by people of the state. The party supremo had urged the people of Gujarat to resister their choice by either SMS, WhatsApp, voice mail, or e-mail for the poll which concluded by 5 pm Thursday.
Isudan Gadhvi won the poll with a majority of 73% votes against state unit president Gopal Italia. Isudan is a former journalist and TV anchor, and had joined the Aam Aadmi Party in June 2021. Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann was also elected as the PM candidate through a similar poll. Gadhvi's rival, Gopal Italia had gained some recent limelight for mocking Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
"There is an atmosphere of change in Gujarat and people believe that AAP is going to form a government here," Kejriwal had 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," Kejriwal had recalled.