Isudan Gadhvi

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Isudan Gadhvi
Joint General Secretary of Aam Aadmi Party
Assumed office
June 2021
Personal details
Born (1982-01-10) 10 January 1982 (age 40)
Pipaliya, Devbhoomi Dwarka, Gujarat, India
CitizenshipIndia
Political partyAam Aadmi Party
Alma materGujarat Vidyapeeth (Masters in Journalism and Mass Communication)
OccupationPoliticianJournalistEditorNews AnchorMedia personality
Known forYojana on Doordarshan
Mahamanthan on VTV-Gujarati
WebsiteIsudan Gadhvi on Twitter

Isudan Gadhvi (Devnagari: ईशुदान गढ़वी; Gujarati: ઈશુદાન ગઢવી) is an Indian politician and senior Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader from Gujarat. Currently, Gadhvi is the National Joint General Secretary of the Aam Aadmi Party and a member of its National Executive. Formerly working as a media professional, he was known as a TV journalist and editor of VTV News as well as anchor of his popular news show Mahamanthan at VTV Gujarati.[1] Since his joining active politics, Isudan became a popular face of AAP in Gujarat.[2][3][4]

Early life & family[]

Isudan was born on 10 Jan 1982 in Pipaliya village near Jamkhambhaliya town in Devbhoomi Dwarka district of Gujarat. His father is Kherajbhai Gadhvi, a farmer by profession.[5]

Education[]

Isudan Gadhvi graduated with Masters in Journalism and Mass Communication from Gujarat Vidyapeeth in 2005.[5]

Career in Journalism[]

Early in his career in journalism, 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. Later, he exposed a Rs 150 crore scam of illegal deforestration in Dang and Kaparada talukas of Gujarat on his news show, after which the Gujarat government was forced to take action. The incident helped Gadhvi rise to fame and earned him a badge of a fearless journalist.[6]

Mahamanthan[]

He joined VTV Gujarati in 2015 as the youngest channel head in Gujarati media. For the next 5 years until 2021, Isudan hosted a popular prime time TV show called Mahamanthan on the state's famous VTV Gujarati.[7] In this program, Isudan would not only discuss various issues with the panelists sitting in the studio, but also do a ‘phone-in’ where he would discuss the same issues with the public and get their views. It became very popular in Gujarat, especially in rural areas. Farmers used to ask for his help for their major and minor issues and in return, Isudan would highlight these on his shows.[8]

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)[]

In June 2021, Isudan Gadhvi joined the AAP Party facilitated by Arvind Kejriwal, who arrived in Ahmedabad to inaugurate AAP's state headquarters. The Delhi chief minister called Gadhvi's joining the AAP as a “huge sacrifice of a promising career to clean the mess that the ruling party, together with the Congress, had created in Gujarat.” He added, “Gadhvi has left a plum career for AAP...You can bring a change from outside the system, but there is a limitation to this. So, Gadhvi decided to join the system and clean the mess.”[9]

Addressing media persons at Circuit House in Surat, Isudan said,

"I joined the media to serve people and the people of Gujarat liked me. I found that by remaining in the media industry, I can serve only a few people, so I left the industry and joined politics so that I can work for large number of people."[10]

Gadhvi's induction in AAP was seen a big political move to garner support owing to Gadhvi's popular image in the state. AAP Gujarat's election in-charge Gulab Singh Yadav commented “it has not been a week since the joining of Isudan Gadhvi and we have received lakhs of calls from people expressing their wish to join the party”.[11] Soon after, Kejriwal announced AAP's decision to contest the assembly election on all 182 seats in Gujarat in 2022.[7]

National Joint General Secretary[]

Recently in June 2022, ahead of the upcoming assembly elections in Gujarat, the AAP party dissolved its Gujarat unit and reinvigorated it with a new organizational structure, marked by the appointment of Gadhvi, a popular face of the party in Gujarat, as the National Joint General Secretary.[6][12][13][14]

Political issues[]

During his maiden visit to Surat along with other Gujarat AAP leaders, Gadhvi said,

“It is true that there’s no place for a third political party in Gujarat. In the 2022 polls, Congress will be relegated to third place while AAP will emerge as a strong contender to BJP which has ruled the state for over two decades.”[15]

During his 'Jan Samvad Yatra' in Junagadh, Isudan Gadhvi's convoy was attacked allegedly by 'BJP goons' during the journey. Delhi CM Kejriwal has spoken to Gujarat CM Vijay Rupani and demanded registration of FIR regarding this incident and strict action should be taken against the culprits. He tweeted, "If people like Isudan and Mahesh Bhai are being attacked openly in Gujarat then no one is safe in Gujarat."[16][17][18]

Gadhvi attacked BJP criticizing its “Jan Aashirwad” campaign, calling it an insult to the memory of those who have died of coronavirus in the first and second waves of the pandemic. Gadhvi reminded that when the AAP organised Jan Samvedna programme and visited every district and village in Gujarat to collect the data and expose negligence of the state government, the BJP announced their Jan Aashirwad Yatra campaign “with great levels of shamelessness”.[19]

Criticizing BJP government's ineffectiveness during coronavirus pandemic, Gadhvi said,

“The BJP has been in power in Gujarat for the past two-and-a-half decades… lakhs of people in Gujarat died of Covid owing to lack of oxygen, medicines, hospital beds and policies such as no admission in hospitals without ambulance support. But the government had hidden the figures…. At the time when people were running from pillar to post for medicines and oxygen cylinders, none of these BJP leaders answered their phone calls… worse, they switched off their mobile phones or gave rude reply to people asking for help”.[19]

In September 2021, Isudan Gadhvi at a press contact slammed the demolition of Ramdev Peer temple in Surat city by BJP and demanded apology from Gujarat Chief Minister.

“Today, the Hindu samaj of Gujarat has been hurt and we can see the priest crying during the demolition drive. You didn’t bother to ask the priests or Hindu community leaders before the demolition. When workers of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad tried to protest, you used police to use force, detain them and intimidate them with threats of arrest. Even the British did not dare to touch the temples and even Mahmud Ghaznavi did not stoop to this extent. Then how come the BJP in Gujarat managed to do it? Our ancestors have given their lives for our temples,” Gadhvi said.[20]

In December 2021, AAP had taken BJP by surprise after hundreds of party workers led by Isudan Gadhvi, among other top leaders stormed the ruling party's headquarters in Gandhinagar, demanding action on question paper leak in a recruitment examination.[21] After the protests, 93 AAP leaders including Gadhvi were jailed for 11 days.[22]

Parivartan Yatra[]

In May 2022, AAP leaders in Gujarat planned a Parivartan Yatra aiming to bring change in Gujarat politics and in the process interact with voters and citizens and spread their message to four crore voters in the state. The party launched the ‘Parivartan Yatra’ from five locations of Gujarat.[23][24][25]

AAP leaders Isudan Gadhvi and Indranil Rajguru led the precession from Dwarka and and Raj Karpada from Abdasa-Kutch; Sagar Rabari, and Bhima Chaudhary from Siddhpur (North Gujarat); and Manoj Sorathia, Ram dhaduk, and Rakesh Hirpara led yatra from Dandi in South Gujarat.[23][24][25]

Isudan Gadhvi was quoted:

“We shall hold meetings in all 182 assembly constituencies. We will go among the people to learn about their difficulties and listen to their questions and address their issues. We will also hold a vote to gather public opinion from 10 lakh people… We will debate and discuss crucial topics such as inflation and corruption with the people.”[24]

Farmer Issues[]

According to Isudan, the BJP government had repealed the 3 farm laws only due to their fear of being defeated in upcoming polls.[26] He demanded a law guaranteeing minimum support price (MSP) in Gujarat.[27]

Isudan has alleged that large scale black marketing of urea is taking place in the state where subsidized urea fertilizer for farmers is being sold at high prices to big factories. He also accused the seed bootleggers of having government backing selling urea available at Rs. 6 to at Rs. 77.[28][29]

Election campaigns[]

On 11 September 2022, Ahmedabad police raided AAPs data management office in Ahmedabad. AAP said the ruling party was "extremely rattled" by the "immense support" received by AAP in Gujarat. There has been a series of raids in which AAP leaders were targeted by agencies under the BJP-led Union government.[30][31]

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP of trying to "crush" the AAP in the name of fighting corruption as they feared of getting defeated in the election. He said that the Modi government was trying to implicate AAP leaders in false corruption cases as the BJP is "not able to digest the growing popularity of the AAP in Gujarat". He said that the AAP's growing influence in Gujarat has rattled BJP and that "the prime minister's advisor Hiren Joshi has warned several TV channels owners and their editors not to give coverage to AAP party in Gujarat, threatening them with dire consequences".[32]

AAP national joint secretary Isudan Gadhvi said that BJP had been preventing AAP spokesperson from debate by threatening TV Media. Gadhvi said that in order to prevent an upcoming rally by Kejriwal in Vadodara, BJP threatened the owners of 13 venues and forced them to cancel AAP's election programmes. Kejriwal said that stopping the opposition parties from holding election programmes was wrong for the ruling party BJP.[33][34]

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