Gujarat AAP inducts prominent Surat businessmen into party

AAP has been working to induct popular faces from diverse backgrounds such as media, community service, philanthropy and youth activism.

In less than two weeks, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Gujarat inducted a second high-profile recruit, as Mahesh Savani, a prominent businessman, community leader and philanthropist, joined the party on Sunday in the presence of Delhi’s Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has been quietly making an ambitious attempt to get a toehold in Gujarat, the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) bastion. Earlier this month, he had come to Ahmedabad to induct into the party a well-known journalist and hugely popular news anchor, Isudan Gadhavi. Mr. Sisodia, after inducting Mr. Savani into the party at a press conference, also held a meeting with Pravin Ram, a youth activist who is spearheading the Jan Andolan Manch and fighting for unemployed youth in the State.