Parvesh Verma and Kapil Mishra will join the six-member council formed by Rekha Gupta, as announced in a notice from President Droupadi Murmu's office on Thursday morning. This announcement came just hours prior to the Delhi Chief Minister and her team taking their oaths. The notice from Ms. Murmu also included the appointments of Manjinder Singh Sirsa, Ashish Sood, Pankaj Kumar Singh, and Ravinder Indraj Singh to join Ms. Gupta's cabinet.
These announcements marked the conclusion of a suspenseful 12-day period following the Bharatiya Janata Party's decisive victory in the Delhi Assembly elections. The BJP significantly outperformed the Aam Aadmi Party, led by former Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, securing 48 seats against their 22, effectively ending the AAP’s hold on Delhi since 2013.
From the time the results were released on February 8 until late last night, there was considerable speculation regarding who would take over from the AAP's Atishi as Chief Minister, with the BJP maintaining a degree of secrecy about their choice. However, the uncertainty was settled when the party officially designated Ms. Gupta.
Rekha Gupta will make history as the BJP’s first Delhi Chief Minister in nearly thirty years.
As a first-time MLA representing Shalimar Bagh, she will also hold the distinction of being the second woman to serve as Delhi's Chief Minister for the BJP, following the late Sushma Swaraj, who was the most recent leader of the party to occupy this role.
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