With Gadhvi relaunching career as a media person, AAP also hopes to arrest rapid erosion in its base in state by riding on his popularity as a news presenter.
The party, which won only 5 of the 181 seats it contested, dropped Gopal Italiya from the president's post; it has also divided the state into 6 operational zones with a working president each.
Former TV presenter and AAP’s CM face Isudan Gadhvi is behind BJP candidate in Khambalia, while AAP's Gujarat chief Gopal Italia is distant second to BJP candidate in Katargam.
Isudan’s story isn’t ordinary because he represents the stunning rise of the OBCs in today’s Gujarat, which is slowly changing. An 'invisible power' is pushing him forward.
Isudan Gadhvi says pandemic made him realise he had to look beyond journalism. OBC credentials may serve him well in Gujarat where nearly half of population belongs to the category.
The US and Israel’s assassinations of Iranian leadership ended up bestowing martyrdom on those killed. Shias saw the deaths as a continuity of martyrdom from the Battle of Karbala.
India’s fast-growing data centre sector may strain state electricity networks; Central Electricity Authority has urged Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu to boost capacity.
Theaterisation, which aims to divide the forces into three theatres with specific areas of responsibility, will become the single most far-reaching reform that the Indian military has witnessed since independence.
China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.
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