Overview

• Images posted on Rekha Gupta’s Instagram and the Chief Minister’s Office accounts show her husband, Manish Gupta, seated beside her during a Shalimar Bagh development review at Jan Seva Sadan on September 7.
• AAP leaders Saurabh Bharadwaj and Sanjay Singh called the spouse’s presence unconstitutional and likened the arrangement to the “Phulera Panchayat” trope of a husband wielding unofficial authority.
• BJP figures Harish Khurana and Amit Malviya defended the scene as a routine constituency review, saying Manish Gupta was representing local residents as a social worker and was not issuing orders.
• According to the CM’s 2025 election affidavit, Manish Gupta holds no official government or party post and works as a Delhi-based businessman associated with Nikunj Enterprises and Kotak Life Insurance.
• No formal inquiry or administrative action has been reported, though media recall his attendance at April meetings with MCD, DJB, PWD and DUSIB, and a reporter observed him assisting at a public jansunwai.