Kejriwal to be sworn in Delhi CM on Feb 16 Likely to retain all his Cabinet ministers

New Delhi: Arvind Kejriwal is likely to be sworn in as the chief minister of Delhi on February 16 for the third time at the Ramlila Maidan, sources said on Wednesday.

Kejriwal's oath-taking ceremony at the Ramlila Maidan also assumes significance as it was from this ground that he along with Anna Hazare led a massive anti-corruption agitation. He has taken oath as the chief minister twice before at the same venue.

Addressing a press conference at the party headquarters, senior party leader Manish Sisodia, who was the deputy chief minister in the outgoing government, said all Cabinet ministers will also take oath along with Kejriwal at the event. Kejriwal is also likely to retain all the Cabinet ministers who were part of his previous government, sources said.

Earlier on Wednesday, Kejriwal also met the Lieutenant Governor. The meeting lasted for around 15 minutes, an official said.

AAP won 62 of the 70 seats and with a vote share of 53.57 per cent, a marginal drop from 54.34 per cent in 2015. The BJP, a distant second, won the remaining eight seats as against three in the last Assembly polls, and its vote share climbed from 32.2 per cent to 38.51 per cent. Congress drew a blank again, recording its lowest vote share — 4.26 per cent — since the first polls for the Delhi Assembly in 1993.