Rekha Gupta sworn in as Delhi chief minister

BJP debutant legislator Rekha Gupta was sworn in as the Chief Minister of Delhi on Thursday in a grand display of strength, marking the party's return to power in the city after over 26 years.

Along with Gupta, Parvesh Verma, Ashish Sood, Manjinder Singh Sirsa, Kapil Mishra, Ravinder Indraj Singh, and Pankaj Singh were also administered the oath of office by Lt Governor V K Saxena.

The ceremony, held at the historic Ramlila Ground, was attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, top BJP leaders, and NDA chief ministers. Gupta, the 50-year-old MLA from Shalimar Bagh, is Delhi's fourth woman chief minister and the only woman in the NDA team of chief ministers.

The new chief minister and her ministers will head to the Delhi Secretariat to take charge of their offices after the oath ceremony.

Among those who attended the event were chief ministers of states ruled by the BJP and its NDA allies -- Maharashtra's Devendra Fadnavis, Andhra Pradesh's Chandrababu Naidu, Goa's Pramod Sawant, Haryana's Nayab Singh Saini and Meghalaya's Conrad Sangma.

Deputy chief ministers of Uttar Pradesh Keshav Prasad Maurya and Brajesh Pathak, and Andhra Pradesh's Pawan Kalyan were present too.

(With PTI Inputs.)