Tag: Sheila Dikshit

  New Delhi :  Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday visited an ailing Sheila Dikshit, whom he defeated in Assembly elections, at her residence here to enquire about her health. The senior Congress leader and three-time Delhi Chief Minister has been unwell for some time and doctors had advised her surgery. “Visited Sheila Dikshit […]

New Delhi: In a blow to the opposition’s bid to forge a grand alliance, the Congress on Tuesday ruled out aligning with the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) for the Lok Sabha elections. The move prompted Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to allege a “secret Congress-BJP understanding”. The decision was taken at a meeting of the […]

New Delhi: The Congress on Friday dissolved all its 280 block committees in the national capital in the wake of the Lok Sabha election defeat. Former Chief Minister and Delhi Congress chief Sheila Dikshit took the decision hours after meeting President Rahul Gandhi to discuss the reasons for the party’s rout on all seven seats […]

Former Delhi Chief Minister & Congress leader Sheila Dikshit today passed away in Delhi at the age of 81 years. She is the longest serving Chief Minister of Delhi, from 1998 to 2013. As per reports, Dikshit breathed her last at the Fortis Escorts Hospital in the national capital, informed Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee spokesperson Jitender […]

New Delhi: Delhi, which was the scene of Sheila Dikshit’s greatest political triumph as she led Congress to power there in three successive Assembly elections to become its longest-serving Chief Minister, also made her witness the most humiliating defeats of her career with her loss in the Assembly and Lok Sabha polls. Her three tenures […]

New Delhi: BJP patriarch L K Advani and former External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Sunday paid homage to former Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit at her residence here. NCP leader Shanker Singh Vaghela also paid respects to Dikshit. Dikshit, 81, passed away on Saturday afternoon at the Fortis Escorts Heart Institute here due to […]

New Delhi: Amid chaotic scenes, three-time Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit was cremated here on Sunday as VIPs and thousands of commoners watched, a day after the veteran Congress leader suffered cardiac arrest and died. Security personnel forced most journalists from the print and electronic media to stay away as Dikshit’s mortal remains were consigned […]