Sheila Dikshit was Delhi’s longest-serving chief minister, serving for 15 years from 1998 to 2013, while Swaraj’s tenure lasted 52 days in 1998.
New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party chief Adishi has been chosen to replace Arvind Kejriwal, making her the third woman chief minister of Delhi after Congress’ Sheila Dixit and BJP’s Sushma Swaraj.
Sheila Dixit was Delhi’s longest-serving chief minister, serving for 15 years from 1998 to 2013, while Swaraj’s tenure lasted 52 days in 1998.
Adishi (43) will be Delhi’s youngest chief minister and the country’s second sitting woman chief minister after West Bengal’s Mamata Banerjee.
Sheila Dixit was 60 when she became Delhi’s chief minister, while Sushma Swaraj was 46.
Having served as minister of finance, water, education, public works, power, revenue, planning, services, law, vigilance and other important departments, Adishi currently holds the highest number of portfolios in the Delhi Cabinet.
The Aam Aadmi Party leader has played a key role in maintaining the stability of the party, especially when Kejriwal and other senior leaders were in jail, he managed the party operations along with other leaders.
Mr Kejriwal proposed Adishi as his successor during a meeting of AAP MLAs, who unanimously supported it. The Aam Aadmi Party leader met Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena on Tuesday evening and submitted his resignation, paving the way for Adishi’s appointment.
According to Aam Aadmi Party president Gopal Rai, a group of Aam Aadmi Party MLAs will meet LG Saxena and formally stake claim to form the new government under the leadership of Adish.
Sheila Dikshit is a key figure in Delhi’s political history as the state’s longest-serving chief minister, India’s longest-serving woman chief minister and the one who led the Congress to three consecutive electoral victories.
BJP veteran Sushma Swaraj briefly served as Delhi’s fifth chief minister in 1998 before resigning to focus on national politics.
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