Did you know Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta once rode around Delhi University’s North Campus on a scooter?
“My connection with Delhi University and DUSU is deeply personal. It was in this very campus that my journey, from student life to the responsibilities of DUSU President was shaped. The two belonged to rival student organisations but worked together in the union for a year. Gupta was vocal about women’s safety on campus and pushed for North Campus to be made a compact or closed campus to enhance security, although the proposal was not implemented, the report added.
In the mid-1990s, Gupta was a student leader at the university and went on to serve as president of the Delhi University Students’ Union ( DUSU ) in 1996-97. In 1995-96, she became general secretary of DUSU. The following year, in 1996-97, she was elected president of the Delhi University Students’ Union. Gupta’s DUSU years also brought her together with Alka Lamba, who was elected DUSU president in 1995 from the NSUI, while Gupta became general secretary from the ABVP. When Gupta became Delhi chief minister in February 2025, Lamba looked back at their student-politics days and shared a photograph of the two taking oath as DUSU office-bearers in 1995.
Therefore, today’s historic victory is a moment of special joy for me,” Gupta said.
She was elected a councillor in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi in 2007 and again in 2012, and later served as mayor of the South Delhi Municipal Corporation. In the 2025 Delhi Assembly election, she won the Shalimar Bagh constituency and was subsequently chosen as Delhi chief minister.
