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Rekha Gupta is also the fourth woman Chief Minister of Delhi. Atisi, Sheila Dixit, Sushma Swaraj were also Delhi CMS.
BJP leader Rekha Gupta comes to the party office in New Delhi for his Legislature Party meeting. After moments he came to know that he is the new CM of Delhi. (Image: PTI)
Rekha Gupta, a grassroots level Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader who gets up through ranks, will take oathS Delhi’s new Chief Minister on ThursdayThe party’s 27 -year -long electricity drought in the national capital.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his entire cabinet, most NDA -ruled CMS and Deputy CMS Ramlila will attend the swearing -in ceremony at the ground.
Baniya Factor
A lawyer by profession, Gupta is like Arvind Kejriwal, former CM of the Bania community, who took over the post of Delhi CM for about ten years before vacating the seat. But Gupta’s Bania Background BJP’s internal sources say that it is not a decisive factor in choosing it for the top job. After all, traders from Delhi – who mostly connect the Bani community themselves – are strong supporters of BJP and PM Modi. In fact, they have merchant cells that voluntarily hold meetings for the BJP during elections. Neither will it affect the upcoming Bihar elections where the community has only 2.31% population. This was the ‘Woman Card’ that helped him get a top job, saying BJP sources.
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RSS Roots and Dusu Politics
An veteran BJP leader, Gupta, has a long political career which is deeply vested in student politics. She is currently serving as the General Secretary of Delhi BJP and has also worked as the National Vice President of BJP’s woman Morcha earlier. In this assembly election, 50-year-old won the Shalimar Bagh (North-West) seat with 68,200 votes.
Many BJP leaders like Arun Jaitley or Sushma Swaraj – Gupta also started their journey in politics in student life as President of Delhi University Students Union (DUSU) from 1996 to 1997. The politics of the municipality, which won the Delhi councilor elections in 2007, Delhi councilors were holding elections in 2007, just moving the stones to become the mayor of the South Delhi Municipal Corporation, that for the first time, their political career was an invisible seal of his administrative capacity.
Gupta, an old RSS figure was overwhelmed after the BJP assembly party meeting, where she could barely hide her happiness. “… I thank the BJP, and I am grateful to all of you for blessings”, he said with BJP state president Virendra Sachdeva.
While the lawyer-royalty was sworn in at Ramilila Ground on Thursday, it would be a historic moment for the BJP, given that the last Chief Minister of BJP in Delhi was in 1998-Sushma Swaraj-a woman. Swaraj also became the first woman Chief Minister of Delhi, but her tenure lasted for 52 days only till 3 December 1998. Through Gupta, the top leadership of the BJP would also like to pay tribute to Sushma Swaraj in her own way.
