Delhi has got a new Chief Minister. The BJP, which returned to power after 27 years with a huge majority, has made Rekha Gupta the Chief Minister. In a grand oath-taking ceremony at Ramlila Maidan, Delhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena administered the oath of office and Gupta to her. When Rekha Gupta took oath as Chief Minister, the entire Ramlila Maidan echoed with slogans of ‘Jai Shri Ram’. After being unanimously elected as the leader of the party legislature party in the presence of central observers at the Delhi Pradesh BJP office, she staked claim to form the government. Six ministers have also taken oath along with Rekha Gupta. Parvesh Verma, Manjinder Singh Sirsa, Ashish Sood, Pankaj Singh, Kapil Mishra and Ravinder Inderraj Singh have been made cabinet ministers in the Rekha government of Delhi. Now it is the turn of the division of the portfolios of the ministry, on which all eyes are fixed. Delhi’s new Chief Minister Rekha Gupta has also been associated with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and is active on issues related to women. Gupta is also the national vice president of the BJP Mahila Morcha and a member of the party’s national executive. It is worth mentioning that Rekha Gupta has become the 9th Chief Minister in the political history of Delhi. When assembly elections were held in Delhi for the first time after independence in 1952, Congress’s Chaudhary Brahm Prakash Yadav became the first Chief Minister of Delhi, but the Congress removed him midway and made Gurmukh Nihal Singh the Chief Minister. After this, the Legislative Assembly was abolished in Delhi, which was restored in 1991. In 1993, when the assembly elections were held again, the BJP came to power and Madan Lal Khurana became the Chief Minister, but in the middle of his term, he was forced to resign and Sahib Singh Verma was made the Chief Minister. Just before the 1998 elections, the BJP replaced Sahib Singh Verma with Sushma Swaraj as the Chief Minister. When the Congress returned to power after defeating the BJP in the 1998 elections, Sheila Dikshit became the Chief Minister. After this, Sheila Dikshit remained the Chief Minister for 15 years, but after the political rise of Arvind Kejriwal in 2013, she was out of power and could not return. After this, Arvind Kejriwal became the Chief Minister of Delhi three times, but in September 2024, he resigned from the post of Chief Minister and handed over the reins of power to Atishi.
Three separate stages were prepared for the oath-taking ceremony. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Lieutenant Governor V.K. Saxena, the Chief Minister-designate and the associate members of the Council of Ministers, along with the Chief Ministers of the NDA-ruled states, were also present on the main stage.
