Rekha Gupta To Be Delhi CM As BJP MLAs Elect Her As Legislature Celebration Chief – News18

Final Up to date:February 19, 2025, 23:45 IST

Rekha Gupta was a part of the RSS college students wing Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) and have become the DUSU president within the late Nineteen Nineties

Bharatiya Janata Celebration chief Rekha Gupta is ready to be new Chief Minister of Delhi after being elected because the chief of BJP Legislature Celebration chief on Wednesday. Gupta, a first-time MLA, will take the oath of workplace in a grand ceremony at Ramlila Maidan on Thursday.

After her identify was introduced for the highest put up, she met LG Vinay Kumar Saxena to stake the declare to kind the federal government.

Jat, Sikh To Purvanchali: Rekha Gupta’s Delhi Cupboard Bears BJP’s Stamp of Regional, Caste Calculations

Parvesh Sahib Singh Verma, Manjinder Singh Sirsa, Ravindra Raj, Kapil Mishra, Ashish Sood and Pankaj Singh will likely be inducted into Gupta’s cupboard. Vijender Gupta is more likely to change into speaker of Delhi meeting.

A gathering of the Delhi BJP Legislature Celebration was held the place the get together’s central observers– BJP MP Ravi Shankar Prasad and get together’s nationwide secretary Om Prakash Dhankar– have been current.

50-year-old Gupta would be the fourth girl chief minister of Delhi after Sushma Swaraj, Sheila Dikshit, and Atishi. Two-term MP and New Delhi MLA Pravesh Verma, Satish Upadhyay and 3-time Rohini MLA Vijendra Gupta proposed the identify of Gupta as Delhi chief minister.

Gupta expressed gratitude to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP chief JP Nadda, state get together chief Virendra Sachdeva, and central observers Ravi Shankar and OP Dhankar.

In a put up on X, Gupta stated she is totally dedicated to take Delhi to new heights.

Who Is Rekha Gupta?

Rekha Gupta was a part of the RSS college students wing Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) and have become the DUSU president within the late Nineteen Nineties.

She is a grass-root chief who rose via the ranks from councillor, secretary of BJYM’s Delhi unit, common secretary of Delhi BJP’s Mahila Morcha to a member of the BJP’s Nationwide Govt.

BJP MLAs’ Meet

Prasad and Dhankhar have been appointed as observers after BJP’s Parliamentary Board – its highest decision-making physique – met to resolve ‘observers’ for the gathering of newly-elected legislators later within the day.

The BJP had arrange greater than 40 election-related committees to deal with campaigning and different associated works forward of the Delhi polls.

The BJP swept to energy on February 8, profitable 48 of the 70 meeting seats in Delhi. AAP received 22 seats whereas the Congress drew a clean within the polls held on February 5.