The Bharatiya Janata Party's Rekha Gupta was sworn in Thursday afternoon as Chief Minister of Delhi in a grand oath-taking ceremony at the city's Ramlila Maidan. Ms Gupta becomes the BJP's fourth Delhi Chief Minister and its second woman leader to hold the post. She is also the fourth woman Chief Minister of Delhi, following from the BJP's Sushma Swaraj, the Congress' Sheila Dikshit, and the AAP's Atishi, her immediate predecessor.BJP leaders Parvesh Verma, Manjinder Singh Sirsa and Kapil Mishra took oath as cabinet ministers along with Delhi chief minister-elect Rekha Gupta.Ashish Sood, Pankaj Kumar Singh and Ravinder Indraj Singh were sworn in as cabinet ministers in the new BJP government.
Smt. @gupta_rekha took oath as the Chief Minister of Delhi.#दिल्ली_में_भाजपा_सरकार pic.twitter.com/HA1Zkt8fay
— BJP Delhi (@BJP4Delhi) February 20, 2025
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Home Minister Amit Shah, and BJP President JP Nadda, chief ministers from states ruled by the party and its allies, such as Andhra Pradesh's N Chandrababu Naidu were present. The BJP has also nominated former Leader of the Opposition, Vijender Gupta, as the new Speaker of the Delhi Assembly. Gupta returns to the Assembly a decade after he was physically evicted by marshals amid a row with counterparts from the then-ruling AAP.
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