From RSS To Delhi CM Workplace By way of Scholar Politics, Rekha Gupta Saved Focus On Girls Welfare

NEW DELHI: Former DUSU president and first-time MLA Rekha Gupta, who has had a protracted affiliation with the RSS and is about to turn out to be the fourth lady chief minister of Delhi, has labored extensively for girls’s welfare. The 50-year-old legislator from Shalimar Bagh was chosen because the Chief of the Home within the Delhi Meeting on the BJP legislature celebration assembly on Wednesday. The celebration has returned to energy in Delhi after over 26 years, ending the 10-year rule of the Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP.

Born in Haryana’s Julana, Gupta is a BCom graduate from Delhi College’s Daulat Ram Faculty. She later earned a regulation diploma from Chaudhary Charan Singh College, Meerut, and in addition practised as an advocate. Gupta, who has had a 32-year affiliation with the RSS, started her political journey with the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) at Delhi College’s Daulat Ram Faculty in 1992. In 1995-96, she was the secretary of the Delhi College College students’ Union and was its president in 1996-97.

In 2002, she joined the BJP and has been the nationwide secretary of the celebration’s youth wing. Gupta has additionally served because the BJP’s ladies wing in cost in Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh. She can also be the nationwide vice-president of BJP Mahila Morcha. After being elected as a councillor from North Pitampura in 2007, Gupta labored for the welfare of girls and kids. She launched initiatives just like the Sumedha Yojana, which supported economically weaker feminine college students in pursuing greater training.

She was elected councillor thrice — 2007-2012, 2012-17 and of Shalimar Bagh from 2022-25. As the top of the Girls Welfare and Youngster Improvement Committee of the civic physique, she led empowerment campaigns for girls. Because the Chief of the Home in Delhi Meeting she goes to be the fourth lady chief minister of Delhi after Sushma Swaraj, Sheila Dikshit and Atishi. Additionally, she would be the fourth BJP chief minister in Delhi after Madan Lal Khurana, Sahib Singh Verma and Sushma Swaraj.

Following her swearing-in, she would be the solely lady chief minister in any of the states being at the moment dominated by the BJP. The brand new BJP authorities with Gupta as chief minister and her council of ministers shall be sworn in at a grand ceremony in Ramlila Maidan within the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and different dignitaries on Thursday afternoon.

In a publish on X, she expressed gratitude in the direction of the highest management of the celebration for giving her the accountability. She promised to work for the welfare, empowerment, and healthful improvement of each resident of Delhi. Within the February 5 Meeting polls in Delhi, Gupta gained the Shalimar Bagh seat by greater than 29,000 votes over her AAP rival Bandana Kumari. She had misplaced the seat to Kumari in 2015 and 2020 polls.