Days after storming to power in the 2025 Delhi assembly election, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is set to decide on Delhi's chief minister. The BJP legislature party meeting will be held at the party's Delhi unit office this evening, reported PTI.
The BJ🧸P has come to power after 26 years, defeating the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in the February 5 Delhi Assembly polls.
As per the reports, the meeting will be held in the presence of BJP's central observers, whose names are yet to be declared. The new chief minister, after being chosen by the 🉐party MLAs, will meet Delhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena at the Raj Niwas to stake a claim to power.
The new chief minister will likely take oath on February 2🌃0 at Ramlila Maida. Preparations for the oath ceremony are in full swing at the Ramlila Ground.
Preparation In Full Swing
While preparations are in full swing for the swearing-in ceremony of the new governme𝔉nt at Ramleela Ground on Thursday afternoon, around 50,000 people, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, his cabinet colleagues, and the chief ministers of NDA-ruled states, among other guests, wi༺ll attend the ceremony, reports suggest.
BJP Storms Back To Power In Delhi
Dethroning the Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in the Delhi Assembly Elections 2025, the BJP on February 8 returned to power in the national capital afte🧸r more than ✅26 years.
The party ended the decade-long rule🌠 of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), winning 48 seats in the 70-member House to🅠 AAP's 22.
The victory w🤡as sweetened for the BJP by the defeat of AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal, who lost🍨 his New Delhi seat to Parvesh Verma.
The names doi▨ng the rounds for the new chief minister include Parvesh Verma, who defeated AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal; former Delhi BJP presidents Vijender Gupta and Satish Upadhyay; and other leaders such as Pawan Sharma, Ashish Sood, Rekha Guꦚpta, and Shikha Rai.
The names of Ravinder Indraj Singh, the MLA from the Bawana (SC) seat, and Kailash Gangwal, who won the ꦦMadipur (SC) seat for the BJP for the first time, are also being discussed.
Many within the party believe that the BJP leadershi𝓰p could choose a "dark horse" as Delhi's next chief minister, a strategy the party opted for in🍎 Rajasthan, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, and Chhattisgarh.
