How right was the decision to make Atishi CM?
Senior journalist Shambhunath Shukla, while talking said that sushma swaraj had tried a lot to take care of delhi or change its face when she was the cm in 1998, but she did not have the time. Elections were held a few days after she became the CM and BJP lost badly in that. However, the decision to make sushma the cm at that time cannot be seen as a reward or promotion for her. It was a kind of demotion because before this she was a parliamentarian and had a good image.
Shambhunath says that Aam Aadmi Party does not have any better leader right now. However, I feel that the party should have bet on Gopal Rai or any Dalit leader rather than Atishi. A Dalit face would have had more impact, besides, there are assembly elections in delhi in the coming few months and the Dalit population here is also quite large.
Aatishi's political journey
Aatishi had joined the party even before the formation of Aam Aadmi Party. She was a key member of the party's manifesto drafting committee for the 2013 assembly elections. According to the aam aadmi party, Atishi has played an important role in shaping the policies of AAP in the initial phase of its formation, apart from this she has also been an AAP spokesperson.
She worked as an advisor to delhi Deputy chief minister and education minister manish Sisodia from July 2015 to april 2018 and worked on several schemes to improve the level of education in government schools in Delhi. Atishi was made the party's candidate from east delhi in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Where she lost to bharatiya janata party candidate gautam gambhir by 4.77 lakh votes. However, in the delhi assembly elections held in the year 2020, she contested from Kalkaji area and defeated the bjp candidate by more than 11 thousand votes in that election. Atishi's growing political stature in the party can be gauged from the fact that after the 2020 elections, she was made in-charge of the goa unit of the Aam Aadmi Party and now chief minister arvind kejriwal has given her the status of his most trusted commander.
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