Isudan Gadvi is an Indian politician and former journalist known for being AAP’s chief ministerial candidate in the 2022 Gujarat Legislative Assembly elections, which he lost.
Wiki/Biography
Isudan Gadvi was born on Sunday 10 January 1982 (age 41; as of 2023) in Pipaliya, Gujarat. His zodiac sign is Capricorn. In 2003, he completed his BA from Jamnagar. In 2005, he completed his Masters in Journalism and Mass Communication from Gujarat Vidyapeeth, Ahmedabad.
Physical appearance
Height (approx): 5′ 9″
Hair color: black
Eye Color: Black
family
parents and siblings
Gadvi’s father’s name is Kherajbhai Gadvi who was a farmer.
I left Jesus with my father
His mother’s name is Manibeni.
I got out of Jesus with my mother
wife and children
Isudan is married to Hiral Gadvhi.
I left Jesus with my wife
Caste
He belongs to OBC.
Career
Journalism
Gadvi started her career with a Doordarshhan show titled ‘Yojana’. In 2007, he joined ETV Gujarati as a ground reporter in Porbandar and worked there till 2011. On ETV, he shot to fame for revealing Rs. 150 crore scam on illegal deforestation in Dang and Kaparada taluks of Gujarat. While working as a field journalist, he worked in various places in Gujarat including Vapi, Porbandar, Jamnagar, Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar. In 2015, he became the youngest channel head in Gujarati media after joining VTV Gujarati where he hosted the prime time television show Mahamanthan. In the program, he discussed various social issues with the panelists. The audience of the program increased so much that the duration increased from one hour to an hour and a half. For discussing farmers’ issues in the show, Gadvi earned the titles of ‘People’s Journalist’ or ‘Kheduth no Patrakaar’ (Journalist of the Rural Masses).
From Jesus, I moved to host VTV Gujarati
He also used to host shows on weekends to promote Hindu culture, where he discussed topics such as ‘The Story of Lord Hanuman’, Karma Ka Siddhanti (Principles of Karma) and ‘Old Age Homes’.
politics
In June 2021, Gadvi joined the AAP party. In June 2022, he was appointed as the National United General Secretary of the Party. On 4 November 2022, Arvind Kejriwal announced Gadvi as AAP’s chief ministerial candidate for the 2022 Gujarat Legislative Assembly elections.
Isudan Gadvi with Arvind Kejriwal after being elected as AAP member
On 8 December 2022, a BJP candidate defeated him in the Gujarat Assembly elections by 19,000 votes.
confrontations
Attack on the Isudan convoy
In June 2022, during the ‘Jan Samvad Yatra’ in Junagadh, Gadhvi’s convoy was allegedly attacked by ‘BJP goons’. Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal demanded an FIR lodged by Gujarat CM Vijay Rupani and strict action against the culprits. In a Twitter post, he wrote:
If people like Isudan and Mahesh bhai are being attacked openly in Gujarat then no one is safe in Gujarat.
Isudan Gadvi attacked during Jan Samwad Yatra
Arrested for protesting question paper leak
In December 2021, Isudhan, along with other AAP leaders, was jailed for eleven days after he protested at the BJP headquarters in Gandhinagar against the question paper leak of a recruitment test.
Accused of drinking alcohol during the assembly session
In 2022, he was found guilty of attending an illegal assembly. He was arrested by the Infocity Police in Gandhinagar after the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) confirmed liquor in his body.
‘Mann Ki Baat’ row
In April 2023, he posted a claim on Twitter that Rs 830 crore of taxpayers’ money was spent on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Mann KI Baat radio show, following which a case was registered against him by the Ahmedabad police for making claims without any concrete evidence against the money spent on the radio show. Mr. Gadvi tweeted,
One episode of Mann Ki Baat costs Rs 8.3 crore! Which means the Center spent Rs 830 crore for 100 episodes. This is too much. BJP workers should register a protest because mostly they are listening to this programme.
Facts/Trivia
- Gadvi was actively helping people during the COVID-19 pandemic. In an interview, he shared his experience of why he started helping people during the pandemic, saying that he once saw a woman standing outside a hospital holding a body who was not allowed to enter the hospital because she did not use the government ambulance. Gadvi got very angry and publicly revealed the number of emergency workers. In the interview, he also added,
The officer received 10,000 calls on his cell phone. He approached the High Court for installments. It was after this incident that I started to think that I should do something that is not superior to journalism.”
- In 2021, when he joined AAP, Arvind Kejriwal spoke about him and said:
A huge sacrifice to a promising career is to clean up the mess the ruling party created with the Congress in Gujarat. Gadvi left a plum career for AAP…you can make changes from outside the system but there is a limit to that. So Gadvi decided to log in and clean up the mess.
Speaking about this, Isudan said:
I joined media to serve people and people of Gujarat liked me. I realized that by staying in the media industry, I can only serve a few people, so I left the industry and joined politics so that I could work for many people.
- After being elected as the AAP candidate in Gujarat, he said he would work on issues like debt waiver for farmers, guarantee of fair prices, uninterrupted power supply and irrigation facilities. Secondly, it will work on setting up an anti-corruption helpline in Delhi and Punjab. Third, he announced free electricity to all in Gujarat up to 300 units per month.
- In 2021, he criticized the Jan Ashirwad campaign launched by the BJP, saying it was an insult to the people who died during the pandemic. Criticizing the BJP’s negligence during the pandemic, he said,
BJP has been in power in Gujarat for the last two and a half decades… In Gujarat, thousands of people have died of covid due to lack of oxygen, medicine, hospital beds and policies like non-ambulatory hospital admissions. But the government hid the numbers… while people ran from pillar to post for medicines and oxygen cylinders, none of the BJP leaders answered their phone calls… worse, they switched off their mobile phones or responded rudely to people calling for help.
- In 2021, he demanded an apology from the Chief Minister of Gujarat for the demolition of the Ramdev Peer temple in Surat by the BJP.
- In an interview, he said that he only smoked once while in college. In another interview, he said that he is a teetotaler.
- In another interview, he said that if his party came to power, he would work as a politician for ten years and then retire.
- Gadvi describes himself as a ‘Nayak’ from an Anil Kapoor starrer Bollywood film.
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