Separate House Secretariat: A Financial Burden

In the past 100-odd days, what could not be missed was the functioning of the Delhi Assembly secretariat running in top gear.

- Siddharth Mishra

The new speaker of Delhi Assembly, Vijender Gupta, is a veteran of Delhi politics. A product of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, he had lost the Delhi University Students Union presidency in 1985 to no less a person than Ajay Maken, part of Congress's top brass today. However, a decade later, he steadily climbed the ladder, playing a long innings in MCD, both in the opposition and on the treasury. He is credited with the commissioning of the mammoth Civic Centre, the headquarters of the Municipal Corporation. He was elevated to the President of Delhi BJP and later debuted in assembly electoral politics, taking on the titans Sheila Dikshit and Arvind Kejriwal from the New Delhi seat in 2013. He, however, lost in the polls.

He finally entered the Delhi Assembly when he was given a ticket from his home seat of Rohini in 2015 and, since then, has won in 2020 and 2025. He was the dominant flag bearer for his party inside the House between 2015 and 2025, when AAP held sway over the national capital. He must be holding the record for the number of times he was marshalled out of the House.