New Delhi: In its tenth list of candidates, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Saturday announced names for 21 seats in the Gujarat Assembly Election.
With this, the number of AAP candidates whose names have been announced so far has risen to 139 after the party declared its ninth list of 10 candidates on Thursday.
AAP has fielded Dr Bhim Patel from Vav constituency, Kuvarji Thakor from Viramgam, Sanjay Mori from Thakkarbapa Nagar, Rajeshbhai Dixit from Bapunagar, Kiran Patel from Daskroi, Jattuba Gol from Dholka, and Vagjibhai Patel from Dhangadhra.
As per the list, other names include Karsanbapu Bhadrak from Manavadar seat, Kantibhai Satasiya from Dhari, Bharat Nakrani from Savarkundla, Ashok Joliya from Mahuva (Amreli), Laluben Narsibhai Chauhan from Talaja, Ramesh Parmar from Gadhada, and Bharatsinh Chavda from Khambhat.
The AAP candidate for Sojitra seat is Manubhai Thakor, for Limkheda is Naresh Punabhai Bariya, for Padra is Jaydeepsinh Chauhan, for Vagra is Jayraj Singh, for Ankleshwar is Ankur Patel, Mangrol (Bardoli) candidate is Snehal Vasava, and Moxesh Sanghvi will fight the Surat West seat.
The AAP on Friday announced named news anchor turned politician Isudan Gadhvi as the party's CM face.
AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal said that the 40-year-old journalist turned politician got as many as 73 per cent votes in a poll conducted by the party.
Isudan Gadhvi, the AAP National Joint General Secretary, a member of its National Executive, was a popular journalist before he left news media to get into active politics by joining the AAP.
Gadhvi hails from a farmers’ family in Dwarka district’s Pipaliya village and belongs to the other backward castes, which account for 48 per cent of the state’s population.
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.