Vijender Gupta elected as Delhi Assembly Speaker

Senior BJP Leader Vijender Gupta has been elected as the Speaker of the Delhi Assembly. Gupta was elected as Assembly Speaker by voice vote after Delhi CM Rekha Gupta proposed his name. His candidature was supported by BJP's Manjinder Singh Sirsa. After he was elected, CM Rekha and the Leader of Opposition (LoP) accompanied him to the chair as per the tradition of the House. Gupta, the BJP MLA from Rohini Assembly constituency, registered the biggest victory among all the BJP candidates in the Delhi Assembly elections. He secured the victory by a margin of over 37,000 votes.

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CM Rekha Gupta and LoP in Delhi Assembly, Atishi, accompanied him to the Chair.

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Earlier in the day, LG VK Saxena administered the oath to the protem Speaker Arvinder Singh Lovely, who administered the oath to the newly elected MLAs in the first session of the eighth assembly. The oath-taking started at 11:00 am with CM Rekha Sharma being the first to swear-in. She was followed by other ministers of her Cabinet and other BJP, AAP MLAs.