Who’s Rekha Gupta, first-time MLA, BJP’s choose for Delhi CM?

Rekha Gupta would be the new chief minister of Delhi. The Bharatiya Janata Celebration (BJP) declared her title after the Delhi legislature get together assembly on Wednesday (February 19). The Shalimar Bagh MLA will take oath on Thursday at Ramlila Maidan.

The BJP has returned to energy in Delhi after 27 years, profitable 48 out of 70 Meeting seats. The saffron get together defeated the Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Celebration (AAP) to rule over Delhi after almost three many years.

Rekha Gupta will likely be sworn in as Delhi CM, alongside together with her new cupboard ministers, at a grand ceremony tomorrow. However who’s she?

श्रीमती रेखा गुप्ता जी को दिल्ली भाजपा विधायक दल का नेता चुने जाने पर हार्दिक बधाई एवं अशेष शुभकामनाएँ।

हमें पूर्ण विश्वास है कि आपके नेतृत्व में प्रदेश उत्तरोत्तर प्रगति करेगा। pic.twitter.com/K8Mu5SyvdV

— BJP Delhi (@BJP4Delhi) February 19, 2025

Let’s take a more in-depth look.

1. Rekha Gupta, 50, is a first-time MLA who is about to grow to be Delhi’s subsequent CM. She is going to grow to be the fourth girl to guide the Nationwide Capital. Gupta is succeeding AAP’s Atishi for the highest job. The
Congress’ Sheila Dikshit and the late BJP chief Sushma Swaraj have been the opposite ladies who occupied the coveted put up.

2. Gupta can also be the fourth chief from the BJP to helm Delhi after Madan Lal Khurana, Sahib Singh Verma, and Swaraj – all of who dominated between 1993 and 1998. As per sources, her title was proposed by Parvesh Verma, Vijender Gupta and Satish Upadhyay on the BJP legislature get together assembly.

3. Gupta, a senior
BJP chief, started her political profession as President of the Delhi College College students’ Union (DUSU) from 1996 to 1997. She later entered municipal politics and received the Delhi Councillor elections from Uttari Pitampura (Ward 54) in 2007. She was re-elected in 2012.

4. Gupta has additionally served because the Mayor of the South Delhi Municipal Company (SDMC). She has previous ties to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and was a member of its college students’ wing Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad.

5. Hailing from Haryana’s Jind, Gupta defeated AAP’s Bandana Kumari by a margin of 29,595 votes from the Shalimar Bagh (North-West) seat within the 2025 Delhi elections.

6. A lawyer by career, Gupta graduated from Delhi College’s Daulat Ram Faculty. She is a grassroots chief who rose via the ranks within the BJP. Gupta has served as the secretary of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha’s (BJYM) Delhi unit, basic secretary of the Delhi BJP Mahila Morcha, and a member of the BJP’s Nationwide Government. Presently, she is the Common Secretary of Delhi BJP.

7. Gupta was seen among the many frontrunners for the Delhi CM’s put up. Another names doing the rounds have been Parvesh Verma, Vijender Gupta, Ashish Sood, Shikha Roy, Manoj Tiwari, and Bansuri Swaraj. The Delhi CM-designate can have her job reduce out for her as sources informed News18 that the BJP’s high management and the Centre count on “seen outcomes” on the streets of Delhi inside the first 100 days of the formation of the brand new authorities.

8. In her first remarks for the reason that announcement, Gupta thanked the BJP management. “I lengthen my gratitude to the BJP high management and the legislative get together for appointing me because the Chief Minister of Delhi. I’m absolutely ready to tackle this accountability and work in direction of the event of Delhi,” she wrote in a put up on X.

With inputs from businesses