AAP Names Italia As Candidate For Visavadar Meeting Bypoll; EC To But Announce Date | India Information
Ahmedabad: With the Gujarat Excessive Courtroom paving the way in which for Visavadar meeting bypoll in Gujarat, the AAP on Sunday declared its chief Gopal Italia because the candidate, even because the Election Fee is but to announce the byelection date.
The Visavadar seat in Junagadh district, which has been mendacity vacant since December 2023 when Bhupendra Bhayani resigned because the AAP MLA and joined the ruling Bharatiya Janata Celebration (BJP). The AAP’s core staff in Gujarat may even meet the occasion’s nationwide convener, Arvind Kejriwal, in New Delhi on Sunday to “put together a technique for the upcoming meeting elections underneath his management,” the occasion mentioned with out giving particulars.
The Gujarat Excessive Courtroom on March 10 disposed of an election petition filed by BJP chief Harshad Ribadiya in February 2023, difficult (then AAP MLA) Bhayani’s victory from the Visavadar seat within the 2022 meeting polls, paving the way in which for its by-election. The HC disposed of the election petition after Ribadiya, who was defeated by Bhayani within the 2022 election, withdrew the plea.
In a publish on X on Sunday, the AAP introduced the identify of its nationwide joint secretary and former Gujarat unit president, Italia, because the candidate for the byelection to the Visavadar meeting seat. Visavadar in Junagadh district was one of many 5 seats received by AAP within the 2022 meeting election.
“An advocate by career, Italia has been enjoying an energetic function for a few years for the good thing about farmers. He has fought to enhance the deteriorating regulation and order state of affairs in Gujarat and take away corruption within the system,” AAP chief Manoj Sorathia mentioned in an announcement. Not solely AAP, however the public of Gujarat can be hopeful that Italia will win with a record-breaking majority, he mentioned.
In the meantime, the AAP’s core staff in Gujarat will meet the occasion’s nationwide convener, Arvind Kejriwal, in Delhi on Sunday to “put together a technique for the upcoming meeting elections underneath Kejriwal’s management,” the occasion mentioned.
Aside from the technique for the bypolls to Visavadar and Kadi, which was just lately vacated as a result of dying of its sitting BJP MLA Karsanbhai Solanki, and native physique elections, the staff may even focus on the best way to “additional strengthen and develop the organisation in Gujarat,” it mentioned.
The Election Fee had performed by-elections to 5 out of six meeting segments that fell vacant after the MLAs successful the seats in December 2022 resigned, however determined to not declare a bypoll to the Visavadar seat as a result of pending election petition. Ribadiya’s lawyer withdrew the election petition on the bottom that Bhayani had already tendered his resignation earlier than the competent authority on December 13, 2023, making the petition (in opposition to him) infructuous.
In October final yr, the excessive courtroom had rejected a public curiosity litigation (PIL), searching for a course to the EC to carry a bypoll to the vacant meeting seat of Visavadar. The courtroom had famous the by-election to that constituency can’t be held in view of the pendency of a petition filed by a dropping candidate in opposition to the successful nominee.
