The AAP will be contesting from just one seat in Gujarat, after the party leaders from New Delhi asked the state unit to select one the 26 in Gujarat. It should be noted that the party had fought all 26 seats in 2014 and lost it and that the party’s state unity had expressed wish to fight from five seats, but eventually gave in to the Party high commands direction that one seat was enough. The party has filed Rajesh Patel from Mehsana. 
“We had selected five seats from where we had planned to contest and put it before the leaders in New Delhi. The high command felt that it was better to focus on one seat where we were strong and had a good chance of winning,” said Kishore Desai, State president of the party.