With the Gujarat High Court paving the way for Visavadar assembly bypoll in Gujarat, the AAP on Sunday declared its leader Gopal Italia as the candidate, even as the Election Commission is yet to announce the byelection date.
The Visavadar seat in Junagadh district, which has been lying vacant since December 2023 when Bhupendra Bhayani resigned as the AAP MLA and joined the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
The AAP’s core team in Gujarat will also meet the party’s national convener, Arvind Kejriwal, in New Delhi on Sunday to “prepare a strategy for the upcoming assembly elections under his leadership,” the party said without giving details.