Gandhinagar: Aam Admi Party (AAP), an emerging opposition political party in Gujarat has appointed Sandeep Pathak as Prabhari of party’s Gujarat unit. The party has also appointed Gulab Singh as party’s election incharge in Gujarat. The State is going to witness general elections of assembly in December this year. AAP has also nominated Pathak to Rajya Sabha from Punjab.

According to News18 report: Pathak got a PhD degree from Cambridge University in 2011 and hails from Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh. He has already resigned from his position as an associate professor in IIT-Delhi.

The IIT-Delhi associate professor Sandeep Pathak had been working quietly behind the scenes for years and is seen as the man who had a key role in winning Punjab for the AAP. Ironically, although Pathak is the man most talked about, he is the least written about given his quintessential role as a backroom boy and disinclination to step into the limelight. Kejriwal acknowledged Pathak’s role while addressing newly elected MLAs on March 20.

“Unhone peeth peeche reh kar ke jis tarah shandaar sangathan taiyar kia, shandaar campaign design ki, pura Punjab ka campaign sambhala, mein unko badhai deta hun.” He not only helped in crafting the strategy for Punjab, but also built the organization and kept the difficult conversations going between Kejriwal and key stakeholders in Punjab. According to sources, Pathak enjoys the confidence of both Kejriwal and Mann.

Pathak first caught Kejriwal’s attention, when unlike many other pre- and post-poll surveys, his survey had not given the AAP either a comfortable majority or a landslide. Pathak has also been involved in the AAP’s 2020 Delhi campaign, which meant that he worked with political strategist Prashant Kishor and picked up a few more skills to fight and win an election. DeshGujarat