New Delhi: After the glorious victory in Delhi assembly elections, Delhi CM designate Arvind Kejriwal is reportedly keen to have more experienced hands on board to get fast development in Delhi.
Kejriwal, however, is likely to induct some new faces as well in his cabinet. .
All the former cabinet ministers Manish Sisodia, Somnath Bharti, Rakhi Birla, Satyendra Jain, Girish Soni and Saurabh Bharadwaj have retained their seats with good margin this time and among them Sisodia, Bharadwaj and Jain are most likely to make a come back to the Delhi Secretariat.
Among new faces, former Apple executive Adarsh Shastri is one of the strongest candidates for a cabinet berth. He is expected to spearhead the implementation of AAP's free WiFi promise.
It is also expected that Kejriwal will bring technocrats on board to make up for the lack of experience of some of his MLAs. Speaking to ET in an interview, Kejriwal said that he would need experts to execute some of his ambitious promises. "Yes, we need experts. We will encourage sector-wise expertise in this government," he said.
The inclination to appoint more technocrats stems from Kejriwal's 49-days experience as CM last time.
In one of the most stunning comebacks in Indian political history, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) of Arvind Kejriwal Tuesday scored a landslide win in Delhi, delivering to the BJP its first electoral defeat since its historic Lok Sabha triumph and reducing the Congress, that had ruled the capital for 15 years till 2013, to a virtual nonentity.
AAP won 67 out of 70 Assembly seats while BJP won the remaining three. Congress could not even open its account in these elections.
