India, Feb. 21 -- Over 50 residents of west Delhi's Kathputli Colony - the Capital's first in-situ slum rehabilitation project - were among the thousands who witnessed Rekha Gupta, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)'s legislator from Shalimar Bagh, take oath as the fourth woman chief minister of Delhi along with her six new cabinet ministers, on Thursday at a ceremony organised at Ramlila Maidan.

Enthusiastically playing nagadas (drums) and shehnais (oboes) at the entrance of the ground, the group had come of their own accord, hoping that a change in government may finally provide them new homes, over 15 years after they were moved from the colony to makeshift camps at Anand Parbat and Narela.

Over 2,800 families - mostly of traditional artis...