India, Feb. 20 -- BJP's Manjinder Singh Sirsa took oath as Delhi cabinet minister on Thursday, in the cabinet of the national capital's new chief minister Rekha Gupta. He won from the Rajouri Garden seat in the recently held Delhi assembly polls.

Sirsa defeated Aam Aadmi party's candidate Dhanwati Chandela by a vote margin of over 18,000 votes to mark his comeback to the seat. He also represented the constituency in the 2017 Delhi by-elections. However, in the 2020 Delhi Assembly polls, Sirsa lost to AAP Chandela from the seat.

Sirsa is among the six MLAs who have taken oath as new Delhi ministers. Along with him, other MLAs took oath today are - Parvesh Verma, Ravinder Indraj Singh, Kapil Mishra, Ashish Sood, and Pankaj Kumar Singh.

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