Rekha Gupta named next Delhi CM, swearing-in to take place on Feb 20
New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA Rekha Gupta has been named the next Chief Minister of Delhi, with her swearing-in ceremony scheduled for February 20. The announcement was made on Wednesday evening following the BJP legislature party meeting at the party’s Delhi unit office.
Gupta, 50, who represents the Shalimar Bagh constituency, secured victory over Aam Aadmi Party’s Bandana Kumari in the recently concluded Delhi Assembly elections.
Several prominent BJP leaders were in the race for the post, including Parvesh Verma, who defeated AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal, along with former Delhi BJP presidents Vijender Gupta and Satish Upadhyay. Other key names in the race included Pawan Sharma, Ashish Sood, and Shikha Rai.
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Four booked for tying 18-year-old to tree, beating him up in UP's Pratapgarh
Pratapgarh (UP) (PTI): Four people were booked here for the abduction and assault of a man who they allegedly tied to a tree and beat up, police said on Wednesday.
The incident, a video of which has gone viral, took place on Tuesday afternoon under the Kunda police station limits.
The FIR was registered on Wednesday evening based on a complaint from the victim's father.
According to Keshav Prasad Yadav, a resident of Mauli village, some people called his 18-year-old son Nikhil Yadav on the phone and asked him to come out of his house around 2.30 pm on Tuesday.
As he reached outside the village as instructed, the accused allegedly forced him into a car and took him towards the Tinpedwa forest area, where they tied him to a tree and assaulted, the complainant said.
The attackers also recorded a video of the incident and circulated it on social media. The purported video shows the men thrashing Nikhil one after another, while one of them is assumed to have recorded the act.
Kunda Station House Officer Manoj Pandey confirmed the incident and said efforts are underway to identify and arrest all the accused.
Meanwhile, Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav has shared the video on social media, describing the incident as reflective of a "dominant mindset" against the PDA (Pichda or Backward, Dalit, and Alpasankhyak or Minority), and demanded strict action against the accused.
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