Rekha Gupta has taken oath as the Delhi chief minister, becoming the first leader from the BJP to assume the post after 27 years. While names like Parvesh Verma, Vijender Gupta and Satish Upadhyay were doing the rounds,

For BJP’s Rekha Gupta and her Cabinet ministers’ oath-taking ceremony in Delhi, ‘robust’ security arrangements have been made. More than 25,000 police personnel and over 15 paramilitary companies will be deployed to maintain law and order.

The decision was made at a meeting of all newly-elected BJP MLAs at the party headquarters in New Delhi on Wednesday evening.