Atishi takes oath as Delhi chief minister
The Aam Aadmi Party leader became the third woman to hold the office after BJP’s Sushma Swaraj and Congress’ Sheila Dixit.
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Aam Aadmi Party leader Atishi on Saturday took oath as the chief minister of Delhi.
She became Delhi’s third woman chief minister after the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Sushma Swaraj and the Congress’ Sheila Dixit.
Atishi also became the seventeenth woman to hold the post of chief minister in independent India. The only other woman chief minister in the country at present is West Bengal’s Mamata Banerjee.
Atishi will likely have a brief tenure in office with the Delhi Assembly polls scheduled for February.
Five of her party colleagues were also sworn-in as Cabinet ministers on Thursday by Lieutenant General VK Saxena, namely Gopal Rai, Saurabh Bharadwaj, Kailash Gahlot, Imran Hussain and Mukesh Ahlawat.
On September 17, the Aam Aadmi Party announced that Atishi would be the chief minister till the next Assembly election in the national capital. Later in the day, Kejriwal submitted his resignation as chief minister to Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena.
This came after the party’s national convener Arvind Kejriwal said on September 15 that he would resign from the post in two days and return to it only after voters expressed their support for him.
He also demanded that the next Delhi elections be held in November along with the Maharashtra Assembly polls.
Kejriwal’s statement came after he was released on bail on September 13 in the Delhi liquor policy case.
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