NEW DELHI: The Trinamool Congress on Thursday hit out at the Bharatiya Janata Party over the appointment of Rekha Gupta as Delhi chief minister and Kapil Mishra as cabinet minister.
In a post on X, TMC MP Sagarika Ghose said by picking Rekha Gupta as Delhi CM, the “new BJP” has normalised “vicious abuse and vitriol”.
“Disturbing reports on social media on the new Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta’s past abusive language and rowdyism. What a far cry from the hard working & gracious Sheila Dixit and the articulate parliamentarian Sushma Swaraj,” Ghish said in a post on X.
“But this is the “new” BJP where vicious abuse and vitriol have been normalised,” she added.
Another TMC MP Saket Gokhale also took to X to criticise BJP for promoting Kapil Mishra.
“The irony today: Hate monger Kapil Mishra who incited mobs during Delhi 2020 riots will be sworn in as a Minister. Umar Khalid, without any evidence, has spent over 4.5 years in jail without a trial,” Gokhale said in the post.
“Wish our courts cared about hate speech instead of YouTubers & “obscenity”,” he added.
First-time MLA Rekha Gupta was sworn in as Delhi chief minister in the afternoon in a grand show of strength by the NDA. Kapil Misra was also among the six ministers who took oath in the grand swearing-in ceremony at the iconic Ramlila Ground.