New Delhi, Feb. 19 -- Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) Parvesh Verma, who emerged as giant slayer and was considered as the frontrunner for the Delhi chief minister's post, missed out on an opportunity on Wednesday despite ending Arvind Kejriwal's supremacy in Delhi elections as the saffron party announced Shalimar Bagh MLA Rekha Gupta's name for the top post.

With the BJP announcing the name of first-time MLA Rekha Gupta, Parvesh Verma also trended on social media platforms. X, formerly known as Twitter, was flooded with surprise reactions, comments and memes.

In fact, during the legislature party meeting held in the presence of Central observers Ravi Shankar Prasad and O P Dhankar, Parvesh Verma was among the three BJP leaders who propo...