New Delhi, Feb. 20 -- A student of Daulat Ram College who joined the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) in 1992, going on to become the Delhi University Students' Union general secretary in 1995, and the body's president in 1996, Rekha Gupta cut her teeth in student politics in the national capital.
Three decades later, after a journey that took her to the municipal council, and put her in several key roles in the BJP's Delhi unit, Gupta is about to take the reins as the fourth woman chief minister of Delhi.
She contested legislative elections from the Shalimar Bagh constituency in 2015 and 2020 but lost to the AAP's candidate Bandana Kumari.
This time, however, she finally beat Kumari by over 29,000 votes, and, as a first-time le...