Arvind Kejriwal, leader of India’s liberal Aam Aadmi Party, on Sunday took oath as the chief minister of Delhi for the third straight term. The capital city’s Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal administered the oath at an event at Ramlila Ground.
The AAP had won a resounding victory in the state elections on February 11, securing 62 of 70 seats, just five fewer than its 2015 tally. India’s ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party gained five seats to secure eight – way below what exit polls had predicted.
Kejriwal retained all the six ministers who served in his government in the previous term – Manish Sisodia, Satyendar Jain, Imran Hussain, Gopal Rai, Rajendra Gautam and Kailash Gehlot.
#AAP national convener #ArvindKejriwal took oath as the Chief Minister of #Delhi for the third consecutive time on Sunday at the city’s Ramlila Maidan. | ? Shiv Kumar Pushpakar pic.twitter.com/QsYbOnsknX
— The Hindu (@the_hindu) February 16, 2020
“There is nothing wrong if Arvind Kejriwal thinks that the same cabinet should be repeated,” Sisodia told ANI before the swearing-in ceremony.
“People are happy with the work of the cabinet and we won the elections on basis of our work. We will continue to build and maintain the confidence of the people.”
Fifty representatives from different sectors – school peons, colony clinic doctors, autorickshaw, bus and ambulance drivers, sanitation workers, and teachers – shared the stage with Kejriwal. The AAP called them the “makers of Delhi.”
