In a tweet, Gandhi said, "I am devastated to hear about the passing away of Sheila Dikshit Ji, a beloved daughter of the Congress Party, with whom I shared a close personal bond. My condolences to her family & the citizens of Delhi, whom she served selflessly as a three-term chief minister, in this time of great grief."
Former Delhi chief minister and senior Congress leader Sheila Dikshit passed away on Saturday afternoon at 3:55 pm in New Delhi. She was admitted to Fortis hospital at around 10:30 after she suffered a cardiac arrest. Sheila Dikshit's body will remain at her house in Nizamuddin till tomorrow when her last rites will be performed at Nigam Bodh Ghat around 2:30 pm.
The veteran Congress leader said people of Delhi had given Kejriwal a "huge" majority and he does not have any option of staying away from his responsibilities and inflicting pain and miseries on the common man.
Najeeb Jung has ordered the Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) to investigate the Rs 400 crore water tanker scam in the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) involving both former and incumbent CMs Sheila Dikshit and Arvind Kejriwal.
New Delhi: Politics has always been male dominated like other fields in India. Participation of female in this complex world is not so desirable, but Females have come out to be the super power of
New Delhi: Nearly 38.5 per cent of the 3310 sample voters surveyed by Cicero Associates have shown their preference for Arvind Kejriwal as the next chief minister of Delhi, with Sheila Dikshit trailing at 18.4
New Delhi: BJP activists Sunday staged a motorbike rally outside the residence of Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, demanding that she resign within 24 hours for misusing public funds during the 2008 Assembly elections."The chief
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) Delhi unit Monday demanded that Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and three of her cabinet ministers step down for the Rs.1,000 crore transport "scam" and an FIR be lodged
New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit met union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar Wednesday and urged him to take immediate steps to bring down onion prices."The restrictions on movement of trucks and checking at inter-state
New Delhi: In 1998, Congress president Sonia Gandhi took a big gamble, when she virtually parachuted Sheila Dikshit from the humdrum of dusty UP politics to the vortex of Delhi politics. Politics in Delhi Congress
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