According to officials, Atishi, who leads the AAP party, will become the new chief minister of Delhi on Saturday afternoon in Raj Niwas along with her team of ministers, officials add.
While Sisodia and Kejriwal were in imprisonment, Atishi represented Delhi government. Hindustan Times.
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Atishi now as Chief Minister of Delhi
As per the office of the lieutenant governor, President Droppadi Murmu approved the resignation of Arvind Kejriwal and appointed Atishi as Chief Minister of Delhi from the date of assumption of charges.
The appointments of the five ministers were also sanctioned by the president and it was communicated that the taking of oath would be witnessed at Raj Niwas by 4.30 infact.
An AAP leader forecast this function would be simple because there is no longer excitment in the party as a result of the resignation of Kejriwal and the process of acquiring the permissions simply took longer than was expected resulting in little opportunity to be given to strategizing the occasion.
Atishi and resignation of Delhi chief minster Arvind Kejriwal.
Files related to formation of Atishi’s cabinet and resignation of Delhi chief minster Arvind Kejriwal were handed over to Ltg governor V K Saxena on Tuesday, had the officials explained. Both documents were submitted to president Droupadi Murmu for approval.
It was during this week’s meeting that AAP MLAs handpicked she unanimously to be the head of the ruling legislative party.
Gopal Rai, Kailash Gahlot, Saurabh Bharadwaj, Imran Hussain and Mukesh Ahlawat who has contested the Sultanpur Majra seat for the first time will be AAP’s newly declared council of ministers.
Within the departing Kejriwal cabinet Rai, and Gahlot, and Bharadwaj and Hussain held ministerial posts.
Atishi and AAP national convener Kejriwal
AAP national convener Kejriwal on September 13 announced his two and a half months of long-awaited release from Tihar jail for over 5 months due to an excise policy matter. Just two days later, Kejriwal dropped a bombshell and quit as the Chief Minister ha said that seeing the way BJP has targeted him over allegations of corruption and other issues he could not continue.
Kejriwal, while making the statement that he will look for a “certificate of honesty” from the voters of Delhi in assembly polls, had maintained that he will take charge of the post Chief Minister once again.
Given the fact that assembly elections for the Delhi assembly have been set for February of the following year, it would mean that the duration of the her government is going to be short.
Her government will have to endorse and streamline a number of much-delayed legislations and welfare measures including Electric Vehicle Policy 2.0, Mukhyamantri Mahila Samman Yojana, and services delivered to customers’ homes.
she held 13 portfolios in the outgoing KCR Assets like Finance & Revenue, PWD, Power & Education were among them.
Bharadwaj, among defence and us, handled the health, tourism and urban development departments, while Rai looked after the environment, development and the whole administration.
Hussain was the supply and food minister while Gahlot looked after ministries like women and child development, transport and home.
As AAP sources reveal, Ahlawat will be allocated those departments that were vacant after department minister in April this year Raaj Kumar Anand was asked to resign while the other four ministers who were retained in the new cabinet will most likely sit on the back of the old cabinet.
