NEW DELHI: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday announced that former TV anchor Isudan Gadhvi would be the party's chief ministerial candidate for the upcoming Gujarat elections.

Isudan Gadhvi won 73 percent of the votes in an AAP survey on who should be its Gujarat chief minister face. 40-year-old Isudan Gadhvi joined AAP in June last year. He hosted a highly popular TV news show in Gujarat before turning into politics.

AAP had asked the people to call and name their choice through a phone number put out by the party.

Bhagwant Singh Mann was selected as AAP's chief ministerial candidate in Punjab after a similar poll.

“A humble farmer's son like me has been given such a huge responsibility in Arvind Kejriwal's politics, I will try to do the best I can. God has given me everything. Now I want to give my fellow Gujaratis everything they need…I will serve the people until my last breath.”, an emotional Gadhvi said in his speech after the announcement.

“Arvind Kejriwal told me, you raise issues of the common man, people like you should join politics. If people like you and I don't join politics, then the corrupt people will have a free run. Politics is not my desire but my compulsion,", he added.

Gopal Italia was also in the race to become the party's CM candidate for the polls.

The Gujarat election will be held in two phases on December 1 and 5 and the results will be declared on December 8.