Sheila Dikshit to take oath as Kerala Governor today

Thiruvananthapuram: Former Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit will on Tuesday take over as the governor of Kerala at a function in Trivandrum.

The 75-year-old Dikshit would be administered the oath by Kerala High Court Chief Justice Dr Manjula Chellur.


Dikshit will reportedly be accompanied by her family members and a number of former ministerial colleagues like Raj Kumar Chauhan, Ramakant Goswami and others.

She will replace Nikhil Kumar, a former Delhi Police chief, who has held the post since March 2013. Dikshit was appointed Governor of Kerala on March 04, within three months of her defeat in the recent Delhi Assembly polls. She was appointed to the post following Kumar's resignation.

Dikshit served as Delhi's chief minister from 1998 to 2013 before the Congress was crushed in the 2013 Assembly polls, only securing eight seats in the 70-member Assembly. She herself lost to Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal by over 20,000 votes. She has also represented the Kannauj Parliamentary constituency in Uttar Pradesh between 1984 and 1989.

Kejriwal, who succeeded Dikshit as chief minister, has since resigned over the Jan Lokpal Bill issue.