New Delhi, Feb. 19 -- The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday appointed Rekha Gupta as Chief Minister of Delhi. Gupta won the Delhi Assembly Election 2025 from Shalimar Bagh seat with 68,200 votes, defeating Aam Aadmi Party's (AAP) Bandana Kumari by 29,595 votes.

Once sworn in, Gupta - a first-time MLA and three-time former councillor - will become the only woman to be the chief minister among all BJP-ruled states in the country. In fact, she will be the only second woman after Mamata Banerjee to be a chief minister of any state in the country currently, irrespective of the parties in power.

Gupta, an advocate by profession, will also be the fourth woman chief minister of Delhi even since 1993 when the first Delhi Assembly electio...