ATISHI TO TAKE OATH AS DELHI CHIEF MINISTER ON SEPTEMBER 21: AAP
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader and Delhi Chief Minister-designate Atishi will take the oath of office on Saturday, September 21, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) said on Thursday.
The announcement by the AAP came hours after Delhi's Lieutenant Governor VK Saxenaproposed September 21 as the date for theswearing-in of Chief Minister-designate Atishiin a written communication to President Droupadi Murmu.
According to sources, AAP had initially decided that only Atishi would be sworn in. However, it was later decided that her council of ministers would also take the oath.
Atishi Marlena, the lone woman minister in the Delhi Cabinet was, on Tuesday, September 17, unanimously selected for the Delhi Chief Minister's post by the ruling AAP legislators.
The Kalkaji MLA, who holds the maximum portfolios in the AAP government, will take over from party chief Arvind Kejriwal with just months left for the Delhi Assembly election.
Several names were proposed to lead the Delhi government after Arvind Kejriwal announced his resignation following his bail by the Supreme Court in connection with the alleged Delhi liquor policy scam.
Atishi, however, was the frontrunner for the top job as she had assumed a central role in the party after the arrest of Kejriwal and his former deputy Manish Sisodia in the liquor policy case.
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