CNN Central News & Network–ITDC India Epress/ITDC News Bhopal: AAP minister will succeed Arvind Kejriwal as Delhi Chief Minister following his decision to step down.
Atishi currently holds multiple portfolios, including finance, education and PWD in the AAP-led Delhi government.
The AAP legislative party leaders reached the decision after Kejriwal proposed Atishi’s name. Other contenders to chief minister post included Delhi ministers Gopal Rai, Kailash Gahlot and Saurabh Bharadwaj besides Kejriwal’s wife Sunita Kejriwal and Assembly Speaker Ram Niwas Goel.
Kejriwal is expected to tender his resignation during a meeting with Lieutenant Governor V.K. Saxena at 4.30 pm on Tuesday.
He announced on Sunday that he would resign from as Delhi chief minister, saying he would return only if the voters give him a certificate of honesty. Kejriwal who was released from prison on Friday after Supreme Court bench granted him bail in the liquor policy case registered by the CBI.