After taking oath as the new Delhi Chief Minister, Atishi held a press conference on Saturday. She said her only job is to make Arvind Kejriwal Delhi CM again. Hitting out at the BJP, Atishi said, “The BJP central government conspired against Arvind Kejriwal, kept him in jail for 6 months, tried to break him but the Supreme Court not only acquitted him but also said that ED and CBI have become parrots of the Centre.”
The new Delhi CM added, “Arvind Kejriwal said that he will also go to the people’s court. And set an example of morality. Now our only job is to make Arvind Kejriwal the CM again.” Furthermore, she added, “Kejriwal is the person who gave electricity to the poor, education to children, free bus travel to women, people did not have to mortgage their houses for treatment.”
Earlier, Atishi was administered the oath as the eighth Chief Minister of Delhi by Lieutenant Governor V K Saxena on Saturday. Atishi is Delhi’s third woman Chief Minister after Congress’s Sheila Dikshit and BJP’s Sushma Swaraj.
She also becomes the 17th woman to hold the post of Chief Minister in independent India.
Atishi, however, will have a brief tenure in office as Assembly elections in the National Capital are due in February. She was sworn in along with five new Council of Ministers during a ceremony at the Raj Niwas that saw AAP form the government in Delhi for the fourth time in a row.
Among her new Council of Ministers, Saurabh Bharadwaj was the first to take oath followed by Gopal Rai, Kailash Gahlot, Imran Hussain and Mukesh Ahlawat, a new entrant in the Delhi Cabinet.
Atishi’s tenure, however, will be short as Delhi will go to assembly polls in February 2025. Atishi will hold the office for these six months only. When Kejriwal resigned, he promised that he would only return as CM if the people of Delhi voted for him in assembly elections and would give him the majority as proof of his honesty.
