LIVE: Delhi Cabinet portfolios: Rekha Gupta gets Finance; Ashish Sood gets Home
Pravesh Verma gets Public Works Department (PWD) and Irrigation and Flood Control Department
BJP's debutant legislator Rekha Gupta was sworn in as Delhi chief minister on Thursday (February 20) in a grand show of strength that marks the party's return to power in the city after more than 26 years.
The ceremony at the historic Ramlila Ground was attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the top BJP brass and NDA chief ministers. Gupta is Delhi’s fourth woman chief minister. The 50-year-old MLA from Shalimar Bagh is also the only woman in the NDA team of chief ministers.
Gupta, 50, was chosen as Leader of the House in the newly constituted 8th Delhi Assembly, in a meeting of the BJP legislature party on Wednesday.
Delhi Lieutenant Governor V K Saxena invited Gupta to form the new government after she staked claim for it late Wednesday evening at Raj Niwas. She will become the ninth Chief Minister of Delhi after the administration of oath by the LG.
The six ministers who will be sworn in to Gupta’s cabinet are Parvesh Verma who defeated AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal from the New Delhi seat, Ashish Sood, Pankaj Singh, Manjinder Singh Sirsa, Kapil Mishra and Ravinder Indraj.
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- 20 Feb 2025 3:54 PM GMT
Delhi Cabinet portfolios announced
Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta has been assigned the Finance, Revenue, Women, and Child Development portfolios.
Ashish Sood gets Home Department, Power, Education, and Urban Development.
Pravesh Verma gets Public Works Department (PWD) and Irrigation and Flood Control Department.
Pankaj Kumar Singh gets Health and Family Welfare and Transport.
Kapil Mishra gets Law and Justice.
Manjinder Singh Sirsa Environment, Food and Supplies Department.
- 20 Feb 2025 12:26 PM GMT
Delhi's new CM 'far cry' from Sheila Dikshit, Sushma Swaraj: Sagarika Ghose
Trinamool Congress MP Sagarika Ghose Thursday claimed new Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta is a "far cry" from earlier chief ministers Sheila Dikshit and Sushma Swaraj.
In a post on X, Ghose, the deputy leader of TMC in Rajya Sabha, said this is, however, the "new BJP where vicious abuse and vitriol have been normalised".
She also wrote: "Disturbing reports on social media on the new Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta's past abusive language and rowdyism. What a far cry from the hard working and gracious Sheila Dixit and the articulate parliamentarian Sushma Swaraj." Another party MP Saket Gokhale said, "The irony today: Hate monger Kapil Mishra who incited mobs during Delhi 2020 riots will be sworn in as a Minister. Umar Khalid, without any evidence, has spent over 4.5 years in jail without a trial." He also wrote: "Wish our courts cared about hate speech instead of YouTubers & 'obscenity'," in an apparent reference to the Supreme Court hearing the case of YouTuber Ranveer Allahbadia. Mishra, who was sworn-in as a minister in Delhi on Thursday, is known for his fiery speeches. He had also courted controversy by giving a speech in Delhi's Jaffarabad against ongoing anti-CAA/NRC protests, a day before riots hit north east Delhi in February 2020. Former JNU scholar and activist Umar Khalid was booked under anti-terror law UAPA allegedly being the "mastermind" of the conspiracy behind the northeast Delhi riots of February 2020.
BJP's debutant legislator Rekha Gupta was sworn in as Delhi chief minister on Thursday in a grand show of strength that marks the party's return to power in the city after more than 26 years. PTI
