Delhi CM-Designate Rekha Gupta Meets LG Saxena, Stakes Declare To Type Govt | India Information

NEW DELHI: BJP MLA and Chief Minister-designate Rekha Gupta met Delhi Lieutenant Governor V Okay Saxena Wednesday night and staked declare to type authorities within the nationwide capital. She was accompanied by state BJP observers Ravi Shankar Prasad and OP Dhankar together with metropolis BJP president Virendra Sachdeva, and Delhi MPs together with Bansuri Swaraj, Praveen Khandelwal and Kamaljeet Sehrawat.

BJP nationwide vice-president Baijayant Jay Panda was additionally current on the Raj Niwas. Gupta, 50, was chosen because the Chief of the Home within the Delhi Meeting throughout a BJP legislature occasion assembly on Thursday.

A former Delhi College College students’ Union (DUSU) president and civic physique councilor, she is about to grow to be the fourth girl Chief Minister of Delhi after Sushma Swaraj, Sheila Dikshit, and Atishi. The brand new BJP authorities, led by Gupta, will probably be sworn in at a grand ceremony on the Ramlila Maidan on Thursday afternoon within the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and different dignitaries.

She may even be the fourth Chief Minister from the BJP in Delhi after Madan Lal Khurana, Sahib Singh Verma, and Sushma Swaraj. Notably, Gupta goes to be the one incumbent girl chief minister in any BJP-ruled states.

Within the lately concluded 70-member Delhi Meeting elections, the BJP secured a decisive victory with 48 seats, ending the AAP’s decade-long rule within the capital.