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Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA Mukesh Ahlawat will take oath as a minister in the Delhi Chief Minister-designate Atishi’s Cabinet on Saturday. While four ministers have been retained in the Delhi Cabinet, Ahlawat will be the new face. The Delhi ministers retained in the Cabinet are — Gopal Rai, Kailash Gehlot, Saurabh Bharadwaj and Imran Hussain.
Ahlawat represents the Sultan Pur Majra Assembly constituency of the national capital. AAP’s Atishi will take oath as Delhi Chief Minister on Saturday, the party announced on Thursday. The ruling party had initially decided that only Atishi would be sworn in, however, it was later determined that her council of ministers would also take the oath along with her.
The Sultanpur Majra MLA, who is soon to become a part of the Delhi government, is a businessman. In the year 2020, Mukesh Ahlawat contested for the first time from the Sultanpur Majra seat on AAP ticket and was elected as an MLA. Ahlawat is known to be an important Dalit face of AAP from North West Delhi.
Notably, Ahlawat’s name was in discussion during the Lok Sabha elections as AAP’s candidate from North West Delhi seat, however, due to the alliance seat-sharing formula, the seat went to Congress. Atishi, AAP MLA who represents the Kalkaji constituency in the Delhi Assembly and holds the highest number of portfolios in the Delhi government, will take over from Arvind Kejriwal, who resigned from the post on Tuesday after he was granted bail by the Supreme Court in Delhi excise policy case. “People of Delhi, AAP MLAs and I — as the CM for a few months till elections, will work with just one goal.
We have to make Arvind Kejriwal the CM of Delhi once again. As long as I am shouldering this huge responsibility, I will have just one goal. I will try to protect the people of Delhi and run the Government under the guidance of Arvind Kejriwal,” Atishi after Kejriwal declared her as his successor.
Atishi will only be the third woman Chief Minister of the national capital after Sushma Swaraj and Sheila Dixit..
