Rekha Gupta Takes Oath As Delhi CM With PM Modi, NDA Leaders In Attendance
Rekha Gupta is Delhi’s fourth woman chief minister after Sushma Swaraj, Sheila Dixit and Atishi.
Rekha Gupta, a first-time MLA of the Bharatiya Janata Party, took oath as Delhi chief minister on Thursday in a grand ceremony at Ramlila Maidan attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and top National Democratic Alliance leaders.
Gupta is Delhi’s fourth woman chief minister after Sushma Swaraj, Sheila Dixit and Atishi. The 50-year-old MLA from Shalimar Bagh is also the only woman among chief ministers of NDA.
Alongside her, BJP MLAs Parvesh Verma, Ashish Sood, Manjinder Singh Sirsa, Kapil Mishra, Ravinder Indraj Singh, Kapil Mishra and Pankaj Singh were also administered the oath of office by Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena.
The new chief minister and her ministers will head to the Delhi Secretariat to take charge of their offices after the oath ceremony.
The BJP won the Feb. 5 assembly elections with a thumping majority to return to power in the capital city after 27 years.
The oath-taking ceremony at the historic Ramlila Ground was attended by Modi, the top BJP brass and NDA chief ministers. Maharashtra's Devendra Fadnavis, Andhra Pradesh's Chandrababu Naidu, Goa's Pramod Sawant, Haryana's Nayab Singh Saini and Meghalaya's Conrad Sangma were among the notable attendants.
Deputy chief ministers of Uttar Pradesh Keshav Prasad Maurya and Brajesh Pathak, and Andhra Pradesh's Pawan Kalyan were present too.
Who Is Rekha Gupta
Rekha Gupta, 50, is a first-time legislator of the BJP chosen for the top role. She defeated the AAP's Bandana Kumari from the Shalimar Bagh (North-West) assembly constituency in the recently concluded assembly polls.
A lawyer by profession, Gupta entered politics as the Delhi University Students’ Union (DUSU) President from 1996 to 1997. She later moved into municipal governance, winning the Delhi Councillor elections from Uttari Pitampura (Ward 54) in 2007 and securing another term in 2012. She has also led the South Delhi Municipal Corporation as Mayor.
Gupta also holds the position of general secretary in Delhi BJP and previously served as the national vice president of BJP’s Mahila Morcha.
(With PTI inputs)
