BJP’s practice of picking unpopular MLAs for the post has cast a shadow of gloom among Verma supporters. According to reports, among these names, Rekha Gupta’s name is strongly doing rounds. The final call will be taken by the party’s top leadership. The swearing-in ceremony of the BJP government in Delhi is likely to take place on February 19 or 20. The BJP legislature party meeting will be held around February 18-19. The party doesn’t have a woman CM in any state and has never had a woman chief minister in any of its three states, except for Jammu and Kashmir, where it had a female CM in 1998-99. The Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva has made it clear that the final call is to be made by the top leadership of the party, who will meet on February 18 or 19 to discuss the future of the Delhi government. The last time the Delhi BJP had a women chief minister was in 1996-97, when the post was held by Ravi Agrawal. The current Delhi BJP chief has been in office since 2008, when he was elected to the Delhi Assembly for the first time. The post has been vacant since the death of the previous chief minister, Anil Baijal, in 2012.
