22win BJP Nominates Rohini MLA Vijender Gupta As Speaker For Delhi Assembly

The Bharatiya Janata Party has nominated Rohini MLA Vijender Gupta for the post of Delhi Assembly speaker.

The news of his nomination comes on the day BJP's CM-designate Rekha Gupta along with six of her cabinet ministers will take oath for their respective roles in the Assembly.

The BJP saw a landslide victory at the elections this year as they won 48 out of 70 assembly seats. BJP MLA Vijender Gupta won from Rohini constituency.

Gupta spoke to PTI and confirmed his nomination as the Delhi Assembly Speaker.

The assembly speaker is elected by the House members.

It will be his fourth Olympics, something the 32-year-old never imagined to achieve when he started his journey from the modest lanes of Mithapur, a town in Punjab.

The BJP has 48 MLAs while the opposition AAP has 22 legislators in the newly constituted 8th Delhi Assembly.

Gupta thanked the BJP leadership for choosing him, he said, "I am thankful to the party for giving me the responsibility of Speaker of Delhi Assembly. I will fulfill my responsibility… I hope we will have healthy discussions in the House."

VIDEO | Delhi: BJP leader Vijender Gupta (@Gupta_vijender) says, “I am thankful to the party for giving me the responsibility of Speaker of Delhi Assembly. I will fulfill my responsibility… I hope we will have healthy discussions in the House.”(Full video available on PTI… pic.twitter.com/8SsH8GEmNT

He reportedly said, "I will first of all get the CAG reports that were kept pending by the previous AAP government tabled before the House."

The third-term Rohini legislator, along with other BJP MLAs, had approached the court earlier, alleging that the AAP government was preventing the tabling of 14 Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) reports on its performance.

The BJP has 48 MLAs in the newly constituted 8th Delhi Assembly while the opposition AAP has 22 legislators. 22win