Hyderabad, Feb. 20 -- Delhi's new chief minister Rekha Gupta is embroiled in a controversy over her old posts on Twitter, now X, targetting Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief and former CM Arvind Kejriwal, hours after being sworn in. BJP supporters of the 50-year-old chief minister Gupta shared old posts to mock Kejriwal's defeat in the Delhi Assembly election after AAP's 10-year rule.

All the tweets have since been deleted.

The chief minister's older tweets indicate she is a fierce critic of Kejriwal and AAP and has used memes to mock the former Delhi CM several times, even stooping to target his parents.

Rekha Gupta's old tweets

In one of these tweets which dates back to August 12, 2016, the chief minister likened Kejriwal to a cockroach....