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Delhi Meeting Elections: Three leaders of the BJP had been the chief ministers of Delhi earlier than Congress chief Sheila Dikshit got here to energy in 1998 and was tumbled by AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal in 2013
On December 10, 1998, BJP chief Sushma Swaraj was sworn in as chief minister of Delhi by then Lt. Governor Vijay Kapoor at Raj Bhavan. (PTI Picture)
The Bharatiya Janata Social gathering (BJP) has clinched an enormous victory within the Delhi meeting elections on Saturday and is ready to come back to energy after 27 years.
Within the capital metropolis, three BJP leaders had been chief ministers earlier than Congress got here to energy in 1998. The three chief ministers had been – Madan Lal Khurana, Sahib Singh Verma, and Sushma Swaraj. Now, BJP will announce the fourth chief minister.
The three chief ministers had been on the helm of Delhi between 1993 and 1998.
A Look Again At BJP’s three Delhi Chief Ministers
Madan Lal Khurana
Madan Lal Khurana was the primary chief minister of Delhi from December 1993 to February 1996 after the federal government reinstated the state Legislative Meeting by means of the 69th Structure Modification Act, 1991.
In November 1993, the BJP gained meeting elections with 49 seats. Khurana was generally known as “Delhi ka Sher” (Lion of Delhi) however he failed to finish his time period because the chief minister.
Khurana’s title additionally emerged within the notorious Hawala scandal in 1995 due to which he resigned underneath political stress.
Sahib Singh Verma
Changing Khurana, Sahib Singh Verma took oath as Delhi’s chief minister on February 27, 1996, and remained in energy until October 1998.
Khurana continued to oppose Verma and it resulted in an influence wrestle between the 2 and infighting within the BJP.
Throughout his tenure, Verma confronted a number of financial points like extraordinarily excessive costs of onion and was additionally not capable of take care of the facility and water crises in Delhi.
Verma’s failure led to public discontent in opposition to the BJP and the chief needed to step down from the place of chief minister a couple of months earlier than the 1998 meeting elections. He served because the chief minister for 2 years and 228 days.
Within the 2025 meeting elections, Sahib Singh Verma’s Parvesh Sahib Singh Verman defeated AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal within the New Delhi constituency and emerged as the largest contender for the chief ministerial place.
Sushma Swaraj
Sushma Swaraj succeeded Verma and have become the primary girl chief minister of Delhi from October to December 1998.
In her 52-day chief ministerial tenure, Swaraj needed to take care of issues on a number of fronts. Quickly after coming to energy, Swaraj established a committee to revive the provision of onions and reduce its costs.
She additionally organized varied vans which ran throughout Delhi to distribute onions. Nonetheless, her efforts didn’t assist the BJP from sinking. Within the subsequent meeting elections, Congress gained with 52 seats and remained in energy for the following 15 years.
