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Rekha Gupta was part of the RSS students wing Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) and became the DUSU president in the late 1990s
Rekha Gupta won Shalimar Bagh seat, defeating AAP’s Bandana Kumari. (Photo: ANI)
Bharatiya Janata Party leader Rekha Gupta is set to be new Chief Minister of Delhi after being elected as the leader of BJP Legislature Party leader on Wednesday. Gupta, a first-time MLA, will take the oath of office in a grand ceremony at Ramlila Maidan on Thursday.
After her name was announced for the top post, she met LG Vinay Kumar Saxena to stake the claim to form the government.
Parvesh Sahib Singh Verma, Manjinder Singh Sirsa, Ravindra Raj, Kapil Mishra, Ashish Sood and Pankaj Singh will be inducted into Gupta’s cabinet. Vijender Gupta is likely to become speaker of Delhi assembly.
A meeting of the Delhi BJP Legislature Party was held where the party’s central observers– BJP MP Ravi Shankar Prasad and party’s national secretary Om Prakash Dhankar– were present.
50-year-old Gupta will be the fourth woman chief minister of Delhi after Sushma Swaraj, Sheila Dikshit, and Atishi. Two-term MP and New Delhi MLA Pravesh Verma, Satish Upadhyay and 3-time Rohini MLA Vijendra Gupta proposed the name of Gupta as Delhi chief minister.
Gupta expressed gratitude to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP chief JP Nadda, state party chief Virendra Sachdeva, and central observers Ravi Shankar and OP Dhankar.
In a post on X, Gupta said she is fully committed to take Delhi to new heights.
मुझ पर विश्वास कर मुख्यमंत्री पद का दायित्व सौंपने के लिए मैं सभी शीर्ष नेतृत्व का हृदय से आभार व्यक्त करती हूं। आपके इस विश्वास और समर्थन ने मुझे नई ऊर्जा और प्रेरणा दी है। मैं संकल्प लेती हूं कि दिल्ली के हर नागरिक के कल्याण, सशक्तिकरण और समग्र विकास के लिए पूरी ईमानदारी,… pic.twitter.com/eYM6X6ptzn— Rekha Gupta (@gupta_rekha) February 19, 2025
Who Is Rekha Gupta?
Rekha Gupta was part of the RSS students wing Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) and became the DUSU president in the late 1990s.
She is a grass-root leader who rose through the ranks from councillor, secretary of BJYM’s Delhi unit, general secretary of Delhi BJP’s Mahila Morcha to a member of the BJP’s National Executive.
BJP MLAs’ Meet
Prasad and Dhankhar have been appointed as observers after BJP’s Parliamentary Board – its highest decision-making body – met to decide ‘observers’ for the gathering of newly-elected legislators later in the day.
The BJP had set up more than 40 election-related committees to handle campaigning and other related works ahead of the Delhi polls.
The BJP swept to power on February 8, winning 48 of the 70 assembly seats in Delhi. AAP won 22 seats while the Congress drew a blank in the polls held on February 5.
