Arvind Kejriwal, whose party stormed to power in Delhi on Tuesday took oath as Chief Minister of Delhi for the third term at Ramlila Maidan. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) stormed to power by winning 62 of 70 seats. Along with Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia, Satyendra jain, Gopal Rai, Kailash Gehlot, Imran Hussain, Rajendra Gautam also took oath as Cabinet ministers.
AAP held on to the nearly 54 per cent votes it had got in the 2015 Delhi Assembly polls, while the BJP improved its tally with 38.51 per cent votes. The Congress party, which ruled Delhi for 15 years before being voted out in 2013, drew a blank.
“This is a win for Mother India,” Kejriwal told his supporters after the verdict on February 11. he is likely to retain the Cabinet from 2015 with manish Sisodia his deputy and the Education Minister.
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