Delhi to Get Woman CM 10 Years After Sheila Dikshit as Kejriwal Picks Atishi for Top Job | All About AAP Leader

Atishi, the Kalkaji lawmaker, holds key portfolios in the Kejriwal-led government. (PTI)

Known to have a clean image, Atishi could appeal to the women voters in the Capital --- a crucial vote bank ahead of the elections early next year

Delhi is all set to get a woman chief minister — a decade after the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) wrested power from Congress stalwart Sheila Dikshit — as Arvind Kejriwal proposed her name as his successor in a meeting of the party’s legislators on Tuesday.

Kejriwal, who was released from jail on Friday, announced on Sunday that he would resign from the post and would only return if people give him a certificate of honesty.

Atishi, the Kalkaji lawmaker, holds key portfolios in the Kejriwal-led government such as finance, education, Public Works Department, power, revenue, law, planning, services, Information and Publicity, and vigilance.

Known to have a clean image, Atishi could appeal to the women voters in the Capital — a crucial vote bank ahead of the elections early next year.