New Delhi, Feb. 21 -- Hours after taking oath, Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta along with her Cabinet colleagues reached Vasudev Ghat to perform "Yamuna aarti"-inspired by the daily evening ceremony at the ghats of Ganga at Haridwar and Varanasi.
The gesture - apart from being a political message of the party's comeback after 26 years - was also a reaffirmation of the BJP's promise to clean up the river that was once the lifeblood of the centuries-old city but is now little more than a drain. The party leaders then headed to the Delhi secretariat for the first Cabinet meeting.
The pollution in the Yamuna river and cleaning it had become a major issue between the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on the one side and opposition parties BJP and ...