‘The doors of chief minister’s office are now open for everyone’: Delhi CM Rekha Gupta

Rekha Gupta spoke to HT about priorities of her government, key promises made by BJP in the run-up to the elections, and working with the city-state’s LG.

Soon after taking oath at a grand function at the Ramlila Maidan as the ninth chief minister of Delhi and the fourth woman to hold the top job, Rekha Gupta spoke to HT at her office in the Delhi Secretariat about the priorities of her government, the key promises made by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the run-up to the elections, and working with the city-state’s lieutenant governor (LG). Edited excerpts of an interview:

Today, I have taken charge as the chief minister. We will do sustained work to complete our vision of seeing a “Viksit Delhi”. Not a single day will be wasted. You may not have stepped inside this room (the chief minister’s office at Delhi secretariat) before this, but now the doors of the CM’s office are open for everyone.