New Delhi: The Aam Aadmi party president, Arvind Kejriwal is set to take oath as Delhi’s seventh Chief Minister on Saturday December 28 at Ramlila Maidan.
Recently in a meeting held by, Arvind Kejriwal along with Chief Secretary D M Spolia and other top officials, the date and other details of the oath taking ceremony was decided. Accordingly, Kejriwal and six AAP MLAs will swear their respective duties in public.
The venue of the oath taking ceremony is decided as the historic Ramlila Maidan, the same venue of Anna Hazare’s anti-corruption movement two years ago.
The cabinet ministers are also scheduled to take oath along with Kejriwal are Manish Sisodia, Rakhi Birla, Somnath Bharti, Saurabh Bhardwaj, Girish Soni and Satendra Jain.
Lately Kejriwal had met Lt Governor Najeeb Jung and handed over him a letter staking claim to form government with outside support from the Congress, in regards to which Jung had sent a proposal to President Pranab Mukherjee detailing AAP’s stake to form the government.
The President approved the proposal on Tuesday December 24, and left it to the Lt Governor to finalize the date for oath taking ceremony in consultation with the Chief Minister-designate.
One-year-old AAP had made an electrifying debut in elections winning 28 seats in the 70-member Assembly.