Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader and party's winning candidate in Delhi assembly election 2025 Atishi handed over her resignation as chief minister to Lt. Governor V K Saxena on February 9, reports showed. This came a day after AAP's debacle in the high-stakes poll in which it was hoping to hit a hattrick. Atishi took oath as the chief minister of Delhi♓ in September 2024 after AAP convenor and her predecessor Arvind Kejriwal resigned from the post amid corruption allegations against him.
⛦The BJP returned to power in Delhi after 27 years, winning 48 of the 70 assembly seats and restricting the Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP to 22 seats, much lower from its 2020 election tally of 62 and the majority mark of 36. The Congress, meanwhile, drew a blank in the polls held on February 5.
ღFive women candidates, including outgoing chief minister Atishi won in the Delhi Assembly poll 2025, down from eight in the 2020 elections. Atishi is the only woman candidate of AAP who won this time.
🤪The BJP's four women candidates -- Rekha Gupta from Shalimar Bagh, Poonam Sharma from Wazirpur, Neelam Pahelwan from Najafgarh, and Shikha Roy from Greater Kailash -- have emerged victorious.
Who Will Be The CM?
BJPꦆ may pick a candidate who not only fits the party’s political ideology but is also seen as someone capable of managing the high expectations of the capital's diverse electorate. Some of the top names include those of Parvesh Verma, Vijendar Gupta, Satish Upadhyay, Rekha Gupta and Shikha Rai among others.
