Congress leader Sandeep Dikshit paying homage to his mother Sheila Dikshit on her death anniversary at the party office in Delhi on Sunday.
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Cutting across party lines, senior leaders such as Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convener Arvind Kejriwal, and Delhi Congress president Devender Yadav, paid tributes to the longest-serving Chief Minister of Delhi, Sheila Dikshit, on her sixth death anniversary on Sunday.
“Humble tribute on the death anniversary of former Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshitji,” Ms. Gupta wrote on X. In a post on the social media platform, Mr. Kejriwal said, “On the death anniversary of Delhi’s former Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, I pay my homage to her.”
Mr. Yadav, along with several Congress leaders and workers, paid floral tributes to Dikshit at the Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee office. Attacking the BJP and AAP on the occasion, he said the welfare schemes introduced by Dikshit for slum dwellers, street vendors, Dalits, minorities, and the marginalised have nearly been shut down by the former AAP government and the present BJP regime.
“Delhi had witnessed massive development when the Congress government, headed by Dikshit, was in power for 15 years and came to be known as the golden era of Delhi. The Delhi metro, flyovers, underpasses, CNG fleet of public transport, including DTC (Delhi Transport Corporation), well-paved roads, modern hospitals, new universities, colleges, and schools, and green cover changed the face of the Capital,” he said.
Mr. Yadav said the people of Delhi still remember Dikshit for the “unprecedented development works carried out” during her tenure as the CM.
Published – July 21, 2025 01:16 am IST
