Kejriwal, six others to take oath on December 28

Kejriwal, six others to take oath on December 28
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Kejriwal, Six Others to Take oath on December 28, Aam Aadmi Party. The new government was to be sworn in on Thursday, but the Presidential order was delayed, and hence the change of date.

New Delhi: Arvind Kejriwal, who led the one-year-old AAP to a spectacular election victory, will take the oath on Saturday as Delhi's seventh Chief Minister at the sprawling Ramlila Maidan.

The 45-year-old activist-turned-politician will take theoath along with six other Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) legislators at a ceremony at 12 noon, expected to draw hundreds of thousands of people. The AAP's proposed ministers are Manish Sisodia, Saurabh Bharadwaj, Somnath Bharti, Rakhi Birla, Satyendra Jain and Girish Soni.

The new government was to be sworn in on Thursday, but the Presidential order was delayed, and hence the change of date. Kejriwal might be asked to prove majority by January 3, official sources said on Wednesday.

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