The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Friday named former TV anchor and journalist Isudan Gadhvi as its chief ministerial candidate for next month바카라™s Assembly elections in Gujarat.
The announcement was made by Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal who said the 40-year-old Gadhvi got as many as 73 per cent votes in a poll conducted by the party.
Gadhvi was pitted against state party unit chief Gopal Italia, who played a key role in the Patidar community agitation.Â
He hails from a farmers바카라™ family in Dwarka district바카라™s Pipaliya village and belongs to the other backward castes, which account for 48 per cent of the state바카라™s population.
Kejriwal said the party conducted the poll by asking people to call a phone number and listen to a recorded message which asked them to choose their chief ministerial face.
-With PTI Input
