Atishi will be the third woman chief minister of Delhi after Sushma Swaraj and Sheila Dixit.
Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday, September 17 stepped down as Delhi Chief Minister resigned as the Delhi Chief Minister while his chosen successor Atishi staked claim to form the government.
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AAP MLAs had earlier in the day accepted the proposal of Kejriwal to make Atishi chief minister after he resigned.
Days after being released from Tihar jail on bail in the excise policy case, Kejriwal on Sunday had said he would resign within two days.
He vowed not to sit in the chief minister’s chair till people gave him a “certificate of honesty”.
Atishi will be the third woman chief minister of Delhi after BJP’s Sushma Swaraj and Congress’s Sheila Dixit.
Atishi said, “Today Arvind Kejriwal has submitted his resignation. This is an emotional moment for the party and the people of Delhi…At the same time, the people of Delhi are resolving to make Arvind Kejriwal the chief minister again…Till the elections are not held I will be looking after Delhi and we have staked claim to form government.”
AAP leader Gopal Rai said, “… Arvind Kejriwal has submitted his resignation to Delhi LG… Atishi has staked claim to form the government…”
Rai said that the party MLAs have submitted a letter of support for Atishi to the Lieutenant Governor.
ATISHI’S POLITICAL CARRER
During the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Atishi was appointed the in-charge for East Delhi as an Aam Aadmi Party candidate. She lost to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s Gautam Gambhir by a margin of 4.77 lakh votes.
During the 2020 Delhi Legislative Assembly election, Atishi contested from the Kalkaji constituency of South Delhi. She defeated BJP candidate Dharambir Singh by 11,422 votes.
Later, she was inducted into the Delhi government as a Cabinet Minister, along with Saurabh Bharadwaj after the resignation of Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia and Health Minister Satyender Jain.