With just one day left for the oath-taking ceremony of the Delhi Assembly and for the new chief minister to be selected, MLA-elect and BJP leader Mohan Singh Bisht said that the party will decide Delhi’s chief minister.
“The party will decide it. It is a fact that a BJP worker will be the (Delhi) CM’s face. The party will assign the responsibility,” he said while speaking to ANI. He further said that it is up to BJP to decided who is assigned what responsibility. When asked the things he would do if he were to become the chief minister, “I will see to it what all to be done, if I become the CM”
#WATCH | On Delhi’s CM face, MLA elect and BJP leader Mohan Singh Bisht says, “The party will decide it. It is a fact that a BJP worker will be the (Delhi) CM’s face. The party will assign the responsibility…If I will be (the CM), then I will see what all to be done.”
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— ANI (@ANI) February 19, 2025
Further, when Bisht was asked what his responsibilities be, if he were to become the Speaker of the Delhi Assembly, he said, “My priorities will be smooth conduct of the House and raising important issues of Delhi in the House.”
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Bisht, a five-time MLA from Karawal Nagar, won the Mustafabad seat during the Delhi Assembly election. This time, AAP had nominated Adil Ahmad Khan, while the Congress nominated Ali Mehdi and All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen (AIMIM) also joined the fray. The party fielded Tahir Hussain, an accused in the Delhi riots case from this seat.
Bisht won the high-stakes Muslim-majority seat with 85,215 votes defeating Khan with a margin of 17,578 votes while Hussain finished third with 33,474 votes.
The oath ceremony was scheduled to be held on February 20 (Thursday) at 4:30 pm with the Chief Minister and Council of Ministers expected to take oath at Ramlila Maidan. However, the ceremony will be held at 11 am on February 20 at the city’s Ramlila Maidan.
After his win he spoke of his intention to push for renaming Mustafabad, adding that he has been engaged in developmental work in the area since 1998. As per to ANI, Bisht confirmed that he would advocate for a name change, saying, “We will change the name from Mustafabad to Shivpuri or Shiv Vihar… I will change the name because I did the development work from 1998 to 2008 there…and the development work is not related to the name.”
