New Delhi, Feb. 19 -- Following a decisive victory in the Delhi assembly election 2025, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has announced Shalimar Bagh MLA Rekha Gupta as their pick for Chief Minister of Delhi. The last time the BJP had a Chief Minister for Delhi was Sushma Swaraj, who served briefly in 1998.

Rekha Gupta is the fourth female Chief Minister of Delhi after BJP's Sushma Swaraj, Congress' Sheila Dikshit, AAP's Atishi. Rekha Gupta is also the only female BJP chief minister among BJP-led NDA ruled states.

The only other current female Chief Minister in India is TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee in West Bengal.

The announcement follows a meeting of the BJP's Parliamentary Board, where observers Ravi Shankar Prasad and Om Prakash Dhank...