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The MLAs then met to select their leader in the Assembly. The new Delhi Chief Minister will take the oath of office in a grand ceremony at 11 am on Thursday
Rekha Gupta won Shalimar Bagh seat, defeating AAP’s Bandana Kumari. (Photo: ANI)
Bharatiya Janata Party leader Rekha Gupta is set to be new Chief Minister of Delhi after being elected as the leader of BJP Legislature Party leader on Wednesday. She will take the oath of office in a grand ceremony at Ramlila Maidan on Thursday.
A meeting of the Delhi BJP Legislature Party was held where the party’s central observers– BJP MP Ravi Shankar Prasad and party’s national secretary Om Prakash Dhankar– were present.
Gupta will be the fourth woman chief minister of Delhi after Sushma Swaraj, Sheila Dikshit, and Atishi.
Who Is Rekha Gupta?
Rekha Gupta was part of the RSS students wing, Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, and became the DUSU president in the late 1990s.
She is a grass-root leader who rose through the ranks – as a councilor, secretary of BJYM’s Delhi unit, general secretary of Delhi BJP’s Mahila Morcha and a member of the BJP’s National Executive, and a first-time MLA. 50 years old.
BJP MLAs’ Meet
Prasad and Dhankhar have been appointed as observers after BJP’s Parliamentary Board – its highest decision-making body – met to decide ‘observers’ for the gathering of newly-elected legislators later in the day.
The BJP had set up more than 40 election-related committees to handle campaigning and other related works ahead of the Delhi polls.
The BJP swept to power on February 8, winning 48 of the 70 assembly seats in Delhi. AAP won 22 seats while the Congress drew a blank in the polls held on February 5.
