New Delhi:
Delhi’s Chief Minister-elect, the BJP’s Rekha Gupta, will take oath today with six cabinet colleagues. The BJP, which is coming back to power in the national capital after 26 years, has planned a grand ceremony at the iconic Ramlila Maidan.
Here are the top 10 points in this story:
- The mega event will be attended by Chief Ministers and Deputy Chief Ministers of 20 states, BJP leaders and workers from other states who campaigned in the Delhi elections.
- More than 50 film stars and industrialists, will be present. The oath ceremony will be preceded by a colourful musical programme, in which Kailash Kher will perform, sources said.
- Diplomats of major countries have also been invited.
- The spiritual leaders of the country will be represented by Baba Ramdev, Swami Chidananda, Baba Bageshwar Dhirendra Shastri and other religious figures.
- Among the common people will be farmers of Delhi, and beneficiaries of central government schemes including laadli behen, and common people will also be invited to the ceremony.
- The BJP has picked Rekha Gupta, its first-time MLA from Shalimar Bagh, 11 days after the Delhi election results were declared. She was picked the leader of the legislature party on Wednesday evening.
- She will have a six-member council — Manjinder Sirsa, Ashish Sood, Pankaj Kumar Singh, Ravinder Indraj Singh, Kapil Mishra and Parvesh Verma.
- In the assembly election held earlier this month, the BJP had scripted a massive comeback, winning 48 of the assembly’s 70 seats and confining AAP to 22 — down from its 2020 score of 62.
- Curtains came down on the 10-year rule of AAP following massive corruption allegations against its leaders, including then Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.
- A number of its leaders, including Arvind Kejriwal and his then deputy Manish Sisodia — spent months in jail.