Atishi, accompanied by AAP leaders, met former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal ahead of her swearing-in ceremony. She was chosen as the legislature party leader following Kejriwal's resignation.

Indian opposition leader Arvind Kejriwal picked Delhi minister Atishi to replace him as chief minister of the capital territory on Tuesday, allowing him to focus on winning a fresh mandate in elections due next year after getting bail in a graft case.

Atishi, who was sworn in as the new Chief Minister of Delhi on Saturday, will oversee 13 ministries along with a five-member Council of Ministers.

AAP leader Atishi took oath on Saturday as Delhi’s third woman chief minister and became the youngest of all three to hold the top office in the national capital. She also became the 17th woman to hold the post of chief minister in independent India,

The opposition leader spent almost six months locked up in relation to alleged irregularities in New Delhi's liquor policy.

Atishi, an Oxford alumna and Rhodes Scholar, is third woman to hold the Chief Minister's post in Delhi after Sushma Swaraj and Sheila Dikshit

Atishi, one of the opposition AAP party’s most experienced figures, has served as Delhi’s minister for education, finance, revenues and law

Atishi, a first-time AAP MLA from Kalkaji, is now Delhi's third woman Chief Minister after Congress' Sheila Dikshit and BJP's Sushma Swaraj.

The AAP leader is the third woman CM of the national capital after late Sushma Swaraj and Sheila Dikshit. At 43, Atishi is also the youngest CM in Delhi’s history, surpassing Kejriwal, who was 45 when he first took office.