Team News Riveting
Ahmedabad, November 4
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Friday threw surprise by declaring former TV anchor and journalist Isudan Gadhvi as its chief ministerial candidate in Gujarat.
The 40-year-old journalist-turned-politician got as many as 73 per cent votes in a poll conducted by the party, surpassed Gujarat AAP unit chief Gopal Italia, who played a key role in the Patidar community agitation. Gadhiv comes from a farmers’ family in Dwarka district’s Pipaliya village and belongs to the other backward castes (OBC), which account for 48 per cent of the state’s population.
His political inning is not so long as he joined AAP in June last year. Gadhvi’s entry into AAP came as a big boon for the party as he is known face to people in Gujarat. His induction in AAP was seen a big political move to counter already established bi-polar politics in the state dominated by the BJP and the Congress.
Recently, AAP has appointed Gadhiv as National Joint General Secretary in June eying assembly elections in the state due next month.
Gadhvi is known media professional and had been associated with VTV News and anchored for popular news show Mahamanthan at VTV Gujarati. He did Masters in Journalism and Mass Communication from Gujarat Vidyapeeth in 2005. Gadhvi worked in a popular Doordarshan show called ‘Yojana’.
From 2007 to 2011, Isudan worked at ETV Gujarati as an on-field journalist in Porbandar.
The name and fame in his journalistic career came when he reportedly exposed a Rs 150 crore scam of illegal deforestration in Dang and Kaparada talukas of Gujarat on his news show that propelled the state government to swung into action.
