The Bharatiya Janata Party has chosen its chief minister for Delhi. Rekha Gupta, a first-time MLA from Shalimar Bagh, is all set to become the fourth woman chief minister of Delhi, the second under BJP’s rule.
The grand oath-taking ceremony at Delhi’s Ramlila Ground will see the attendance of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, BJP National President JP Nadda and other key leaders from the top brass.
RSS leaders and spiritual Dharm Gurus, industrialists, celebrities, Laddli Bahanas, auto drivers and farmers from Delhi are also invited to the swearing-in ceremony.
The new Delhi government will have six cabinet ministers, including Parvesh Verma who defeated AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal in the recent assembly polls, who will be administered the oath of office on Thursday afternoon, officials said.
A Union Home Ministry notification stated that the president, on the advice of Chief Minister designate Rekha Gupta, appointed BJP MLAs Parvesh Sahib Singh Verma, Ashish Sood, Manjinder Singh Sirsa, Ravinder Indraj, Kapil Mishra and Pankaj Kumar Singh as ministers of the Delhi government.
The new ministers will take oath along with CM-designate Gupta.
Ahead of taking the oath, Rekha Gupta said that the BJP government would fulfil its poll promise of providing Rs 2,500 monthly financial assistance to women. The first instalment of the monthly support would be credited to their accounts by March 8, she added.
With inputs from agencies
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