The BJP has named Shalimar Bagh MLA Rekha Gupta as Delhi's next Chief Minister. She will take the oath as Chief Minister on Thursday at the Ramlila Ground.
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00:00Rekha Gupta is a three-time MLA from the Shalimar Barg constituency.
00:05She won in this election by beating Bandana Kumari of the Aam Aadmi Party by 29,595 votes.
00:15She's been councillor from Shalimar Barg as well.
00:18In the last mayor elections, she lost to Shelley O'Brien of the Aam Aadmi Party by just 34
00:25votes, who went on to become then the mayor of Delhi.
00:29So she was born in Jind in Haryana, and she grew up in North Delhi.
00:34She's been in the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad.
00:37She became general secretary.
00:38She's been president of the Delhi University Students' Union between 1996 and 1997.
00:44She joined the BJP in 2002 as a general secretary and was in the party's youth wing.
00:50She will be the first BJP woman chief minister since Vasundhara Raje stepped down, and currently
00:57she will be the only woman chief minister, Raje Singh.
01:00Yes, so the sources are actually right.
01:02See, there are two, three things which went in her favour and tipped the balance towards
01:07her.
01:08Of course, she's a woman face, and BJP desperately needed a woman face, especially because they
01:12have promised so much for the woman voter segment through reservations and all, that
01:17not having a CM face who is a woman just, you know, doesn't... it's not that walk the
01:22talk that BJP ideally wants to see.
01:25That is one.
01:26The other thing is, look at the shrill attacks that BJP's government is going to face from
01:30the Aam Aadmi Party, and in all likelihood, led by Aatish Marlena.
01:34So in order to pit that battle...
01:36Those are visuals from the residence of Rekha Gupta, Delhi's new chief minister, on your
01:42screen.
01:43Now there is firecrackers.
01:44They can call the firecrackers from the residence of some of the other leaders.
01:47They may have stocked up on some firecrackers as well.
01:50But as of now, it's party time.
01:52It's party time for Rekha Gupta.
01:54She's been councillor from Shalimar Barg.
01:58She was the leading female face of the BJP in Delhi and won by a pretty big margin, 29,595
02:07votes.
02:08And the first... and she's got strong RSS connections, strong ABVP connections.
02:13Let me get a quick word in from Prabhu Chawla first.
02:16Prabhuji, Rekha Gupta becoming Delhi's new chief minister, your first takeaway.
02:22You see, interesting thing is, you must see out of the 14 BJP chief ministers, I think
02:2710 of them are from ABVP.
02:29If you look at the background of their ABVP, because I was connected earlier with ABVP.
02:33I know most of the people have been chosen.
02:35Mr. Modi has good connection with ABVP when he was Pacharak in Delhi.
02:39So I would say ABVP, because all the leaders come from the student community.
02:43Class of 70, which will be leaders like Arun Jaitley, etc.
02:48They were the people at that time from ABVP, even Dharamendra Prasad in ABVP, Abhishek
02:52Abhishek from ABVP.
02:53So what I see is that Modi looks after potential candidates of the future, as somebody pointed
02:58out to you.
02:59So Rekha Gupta was a councillor, yeah, I know her very well.
03:02She was a councillor and she lost twice, I think, in L.A.
03:04And she was the only woman face who had experience.
03:07So one is the trading committee.
03:08For a long time, BJP was dependent on the trading committee for the last long time.
03:13But they were losing out on the trading committee.
03:15Punjabis and traders, originally the BJP or Jamsangh would call it.
03:19They were compiling of basically Baniyas and Punjabi refugees from Pakistan.
03:23Now it was the Purvanchal Pradesh who were dominating the narrative for the last two
03:28three years.
03:29And the entire TV channel and everything was talking about the Purvanchal.
03:32So I think it is a good thing they have done it.
03:35They chose a woman who has been a trusted worker of the ABVP and connection with the
03:39RSS.
03:40But as I told you, she will be guided by the Home Minister and she will be Muslim.
03:45BJP Saxena, for example, also belongs, comes from Gujarat.
03:48He belongs to Singhania group.
03:49He was working for them.
03:50He was in Ahmedabad working for an NGO for the last 20 years.
03:54He came back as the Adiyogi commission chairman.
03:57He is very well trusted by both the Prime Minister and Home Minister.
04:00So it will be a combination of Saxena and Gulta who will run the state government.
04:06It is a good choice because one of the workers has become the Chief Minister.
04:09That has been the slogan of the Prime Minister Modi.
04:12I want to go across to the BJP headquarters.
04:14Akshita Nandgopal joins us as the BJP announces a woman Chief Minister for the National Capital.
04:19And about time I say.
04:21Too many men, 13 men and finally a woman joining the gang of Chief Ministers of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
04:33Well, Rahul, I am the only woman here which is why you can see that there isn't much celebration
04:37happening.
04:38Very muted right now because people are still digesting the news.
04:41Rekha Gupta is the Chief Minister of Delhi.
04:44She is going to be sworn in as the Chief Minister.
04:47But of course, first time MLA.
04:49So just with that, a message being sent across that the BJP wanted a woman at their head.
04:54If you look at the list of the Chief Ministers that they have across the country, there isn't
04:58a single woman.
04:59And for a party that speaks about Nadi Shakti, that's not the best image.
05:03But let's also get your reaction.
05:05Pradeep Bhandari here.
05:06Pradeep, good evening.
05:07Rekha Gupta is the Chief Minister.
05:09Why?
05:10Well, your team is inside.
05:11You can go and see there's absolute jubilation inside.
05:14People of Delhi are very, very happy.
05:16Yes, but outside and inside, both people of Delhi are very, very happy.
05:19Why?
05:20Well, people of Delhi are extremely happy they've got the Chief Minister they deserve.
05:23Thank you very much.
05:24So Pradeep Bhandari is saying she's the Chief Minister that the people of Delhi deserve.
05:29We'll continue getting your more reactions from inside.
05:32Rahul, all of the leaders now trickling out with the Legislative Party meet coming to an end.
05:37Next, you'll see Rekha Gupta accompanied by the senior Delhi BJP leadership all headed
05:42to the left-hand governor and officially staking claim to form the government, paving the way,
05:46of course, for that grand oath-taking tomorrow.
05:49Rekha Gupta it is.
05:51And you know how politics turns.
05:54Siddharth Mishra, that is always fascinating.
05:56She lost the mayor election, the Delhi mayor elections to Shelley O'Brien by 34 votes.
06:02From there, she wins this MLA election.
06:05And lo and behold, she's the new Chief Minister.
06:08She's done with the likes of Kiran Bedi, Satish Upadhyay, Manoj Tiwari and several others couldn't.
06:16Rekha Gupta has managed to do that.
06:18You know, luck, being at the right place at the right time has so much to do with political fortune.
06:23There had to be a Chief Minister from either from Vaishya community or from Punjabi community this time.
06:31These two communities have not been voting for BJP in the past elections.
06:34And in this election, out of the 35 seats that they dominate, 29 seats were won by BJP.
06:39So BJP had to give a vote.