Atishi’s AAP-Strokes: Youngest Delhi CM To First Girl Opposition Chief In State Meeting – News18

Final Up to date:February 23, 2025, 16:16 IST

Atishi, earlier this month, resigned because the chief minister of Delhi, after serving for greater than 150 days–making her the second longest serving lady CM after late Sheila Dikshit

Atishi has been chosen because the chief of opposition within the Delhi meeting because the Aam Aadmi Occasion (AAP) makes its debut within the opposition house. She is the primary lady to carry this submit within the Delhi meeting.

Atishi, earlier this month, resigned because the chief minister of Delhi, after serving for greater than 150 days–making her the second longest serving lady CM after late Sheila Dikshit. She was the third lady CM of Delhi. The AAP, which registered two sweeping victories in Delhi polls, was lowered to only 22 seats within the 2025 elections.

Atishi joined the AAP in 2013 on the time of its inception and for nearly 5 years, she was away from the limelight, working behind the scenes. Other than her position within the get together, between 2015 and 2018, she served as an adviser to then schooling minister Manish Sisodia.

THE 2018 TURNING POINT

Nevertheless, in 2018, a growth gave Atishi front-page focus. A complete of 10 advisers of the Delhi cupboard ministers had been sacked by the union authorities, however everybody was speaking about Atishi. It was claimed by the get together that she was working because the adviser at a wage of Re 1 solely. Her schooling from Oxford College and her contribution to the reforms had been being talked about.

Months later, she was made the Lok Sabha face of the AAP as she contested the 2019 elections from East Delhi. However it was cricketer Gautam Gambhir who took away the seat.

That was most likely the final time Atishi had confronted defeat or a setback. In 2020, she turned an MLA from Kalkaji and there was no trying again.

Atishi turned the Delhi schooling minister in March 2023, changing Sisodia when he needed to give up after he was arrested in an alleged rip-off within the now-scrapped liquor coverage. And with 13 departments in her hand, very quickly, she was the minister with the very best portfolios within the Delhi authorities.

When all the highest cupboard ministers had been in jail in August 2024, she was chosen to symbolize the Delhi authorities for the flag hoisting on August 15 on the state-level Independence Day occasion.

As then Delhi Chief Minister Kejriwal was arrested in March, she remained the principle face of the federal government, regardless of the cupboard having some senior leaders as effectively.

And as was anticipated, she was chosen to exchange Kejriwal because the chief minister when the bail situations and the political scenario compelled the AAP supremo to step down. With over 150 days in energy, she turned the second longest serving lady CM in Delhi, after Dikshit who held the chair for over 15 years and is the longest serving CM, no matter gender.

RETAINED HER SEAT AGAINST BIDHURI

Atishi was 43 when she took the oath because the Delhi CM. Kejriwal was 45 when he took the oath for the primary time in 2013, making him the youngest at the moment.

Even within the 2025 elections, whereas a number of prime AAP leaders, together with Kejriwal and Sisodia, did not get elected to the home, Atishi saved her seat towards high-profile Bharatiya Janata Occasion (BJP) chief and former MP Ramesh Bidhuri by over 3,500 votes. She bagged 52,154 votes.

At a time when the AAP is embroiled in corruption expenses and its senior leaders are out on bail, Atishi was among the many few names from the cupboard with none corruption circumstances.

Because the BJP introduced Rekha Gupta to be the chief minister, there was no more sensible choice than Atishi within the AAP to take the battle ahead.

After her election because the LOP, she posted on X saying the individuals of Delhi have assigned them the position of the opposition, and as a powerful opposition, they’ll make sure that the BJP authorities fulfils all its guarantees made to the individuals of Delhi.

Even when her title was not chosen because the LOP, she had began focusing on the Gupta authorities for its failure to approve a month-to-month monetary help scheme for ladies in Delhi, as promised by the highest BJP management throughout campaigns.

For the Comptroller and Auditor Normal of India (CAG) report challenge that the BJP has been elevating, on Sunday, whereas chatting with the media, she mentioned because the CM, she had signed the studies and had despatched them to the meeting speaker, clarifying that the studies had been to be tabled regardless of who was forming the federal government.

The battle between first-time MLA Gupta, because the CM, and Atishi, who has been in that chair, goes to be fascinating, giving larger possibilities of ladies’s points being prioritised in the home.