Parvesh Verma, who won from the New Delhi Assembly seat, Arvinder Singh Lovely, elected from the Gandhi Nagar Constituency, and Kailash Gahlot, the winner from Bijwasan seat, were among the leaders who met Saxena at Raj Niwas, the official residence of the Delhi Lieutenant Governor.
Atishi, 43, was serving as the Chief Minister of Delhi since September last year. Her elevation to the top post came after Kejriwal announced resignation from his post, days after resigning from the post.
The new deadline is now Monday, following a lawsuit filed by several federal unions, including the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME).
Recently, with just a few days before the Delhi assembly elections, eight Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLAs have stepped down from their posts. Their resignations come after they were denied tickets to contest the upcoming polls.
With this announcement, Zamir has become the 24th Chief of Staff of IDF, replacing Lt Gen Herzi Halevi following his resignation last month. He will take the post on March 6, Times of Israel reported.
The MLAs submitted their resignation letters to former Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday after being denied tickets to the contest Delhi assembly elections, which are scheduled to be held on February 5.
"Arvind Kejriwal's 'Aapda' party is sinking and this ship will sink on 5th February and on 8th February, people of Delhi will get BJP's double engine govt, for poor people. This will be a new era for the development of Delhi. Today, Delhi is troubled by the corruption of Arvind Kejriwal,"
The MLAs in their resignation letter cited 'significant deviation' from the values and principles on which the party was founded and accused it of abandoning its founding principles of corruption-free governance, and transparency, and exhibiting traits of centralisation, opacity, and a la
Athawale had held a press conference in Amritsar and further demanded that Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann should take moral responsibility and resign immediately.
Seven MLAs of the Aam Aadmi Party resigned from the party on Friday, saying AAP has moved away from its original ideology of 'honesty' and its leadership has been tainted into several cases of 'corruption'.