Ahmedabad, November 4
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convener Arvind Kejriwal will announce on Friday the name of the party’s chief ministerial candidate for the next month’s Gujarat Assembly elections, party office-bearers said.
The candidate will be named on the basis of opinion submitted to the party by the people of the state, they said.
Those in the race for the top post from the AAP include its state unit president Gopal Italia, national general secretary Isudan Gadhvi and general secretary Manoj Soratihya, party sources said.
Kejriwal is scheduled to hold a press conference in Ahmedabad on Friday to announce the name, the party said in a statement on Thursday.
Last week, Kejriwal had urged people to contact the party through SMS, WhatsApp, voice mail and e-mail to give their views about who should be the CM candidate from the party in the state.
He had said that people could submit their points of view till November 3 evening and on the basis of their opinions, the name of the party’s chief ministerial face would be announced the next day.
“We will announce the result on November 4,” he had said last Saturday.
