Khambhalia Election 2022: Can Isudan Gadhvi, AAP’s CM face, spring a shock?

Aam Aadmi Get together’s chief ministerial face Isudan Gadhvi is locked in a triangular contest in opposition to Congress chief and sitting MLA Vikrambhai Madam and Bharatiya Janata Get together (BJP) candidate Mulu Ayar Bera for the Khambhalia seat.

Gadhvi, 40, who joined AAP in June final yr, belongs to the opposite backward castes (OBC), which accounts for 48 per cent of the state’s inhabitants. He hails from the Pipaliya village of Dwarka district in Gujarat, and was named the occasion’s CM candidate on November 4 with 73 per cent votes in an AAP survey for the CM face.

It should be famous that the Khambhalia seat is at the moment held by Congress chief Vikrambhai Madam. Within the 2017, he defeated BJP’s Karubhai Naranbhai Chavda by a margin of 11,046 votes. Whereas, Vikrambhai Madam secured a complete of 79,779 votes, Kalubhai Naranbhai Chavda bagged about 68,733 votes. The seat was received by the BJP in 2007 and 2012.

This time with elections at the moment underway in Gujarat, all eyes are on Isudan Gadhvi, a relative newcomer to the political area, as he faces seasoned politicians who’ve received elections beforehand. 

Gadhvi, a graduate from Gujarat Vidyapeeth, started his journalism profession with Doordarshan. Later, he went on to work in Porbandar with ETV Gujarati from 2007 to 2011. He got here to the limelight after exposing a Rs 150 crore rip-off of unlawful deforestation in Dang and Kaparada districts of Gujarat on his information present.

Furthermore, he was among the many first few names to affix the occasion in Gujarat because it made its solution to problem BJP’s sturdy foothold of 27 years.

The primary part of polling is underway in Gujarat for 89 meeting seats at the moment. Among the many key seats going to polls on this part are Rajkot West, Morbi, Jamnagar North, Katargam, and Khambhalia. Polling for the remaining 93 seats shall be held within the second part on December 5.

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