'Best wishes to Kejriwal for a fruitful tenure' PM Modi congratulates Delhi CM on taking oath

News Bharati    17-Feb-2020 10:03:08 AM
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New Delhi, February 17: Extending best wishes for a fruitful tenure, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday congratulated Arvind Kejriwal on taking oath as Delhi Chief Minister. This is almost a week after the Delhi Assembly Poll results where the Aam Aadmi Party won by acquiring 62 of total 70 seats.
 
Kejriwal, along with his cabinet colleagues Manish Sisodia, Satyendar Jain, Gopal Rai, Imran Hussain, Rajendra Pal Gautam and Kailash Gahlot were administered the oath of office and secrecy by Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal at the historic Ramlila Maidan.

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"I congratulate Shri Arvind Kejriwal on taking oath as Delhi's CM earlier today. Best wishes to him for a fruitful tenure", PM Modi tweeted, who was on a day-long visit to his parliamentary constituency Varanasi.
Giving rise to a novel kind of politics, Delhites, for the third consecutive term hand-picked the Aam Aadmi Party government in the national capital. The AAP winning over 62 seats out of 70 in Delhi Assembly elections, accounted for the largest vote share at 53.57%. While the Bhartiya Janata Party that won the remaining 8 seats, stood at 38.51% of vote share.
 
Further, while Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal defeated BJP’s Sunil Yadav from the New Delhi constituency by a margin of 21697 votes, AAP’s stupendous victory comes nearly eight months after it suffered a severe drubbing in the Lok Sabha polls in which the party drew a blank while the BJP won all the seven seats.