New Delhi, Feb. 21 -- The seasoned, affable, BJP leader holding the fort successfully for the party in Delhi Assembly, municipal corporation, as head of the State unit free from any controversies, Vijender Gupta, was named as Speaker of the new Vidhan Sabha on Thursday. Vijender will preside from the same chair which on several occasions had got him marshalled out of the proceedings of the Assembly under the chief ministership of AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal.

Vijender won in 2015 and 2020 from Rohini constituency even as Kejriwal's wave swept Delhi assembly polls. Incidentally, Kejriwal and erstwhile speaker Ram Niwas Goel are no longer members of the new assembly.

As soon as Vijender was named as Speaker dramatic visuals of him being ma...