The first session of the Delhi legislative assembly will be held on February 24. Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena has appointed Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Arvinder Singh Lovely as protem speaker. Rekha Gupta, who took oath as Delhi Chief Minister earlier on Thursday, chaired the first meeting of her cabinet hours later. She announced two key decisions – to implement the Ayushman Bharat scheme with Rs 5 lakh top-up and table the 14 pending CAG reports in the first sitting of Assembly. She said the Delhi government will pay for the top- up and will sign a MoU with the Centre. This was a pre-poll promise of the BJP, which had targeted the AAP government for not implementing the scheme. She also announced the tabling of CAG report which had not been tabled by the Kejriwal government. The first session will be open for motion of thanks on LG’s address on February 25. The Deputy Speaker will be elected on February 26.
