He narrated the tale of an elderly woman begging for a bed for her son, who had tested positive for Covid-19 last year, while medical officers at a government hospital in Ahmedabad refused her one, citing protocols which did not allow beds to be allotted to patients not arriving in government ambulances. “I felt helpless. It changed something in me,” said the man, as people around him listened with rapt attention.The man had many such tales – from helping people during the pandemic to saving the life of his own mother and himself after both of them were infected by one of the deadliest variants of the virus. In his conversations, he often stressed on how the pandemic had shaped up his decision of joining politics when he was at the peak of his career in TV journalism in Gujarat.Read all about Isudan Gadhvi on TOI+