Atishi to become one of youngest woman chief ministers. Who are others?

AAP MLA Atishi was on Tuesday named by the party to replace Arvind Kejriwal as the Delhi Chief Minister, making her the youngest woman to occupy the top post in the national capital. This comes after Kejriwal, who got bail in the liquor policy case last week, resigned from office earlier today.
Atishi (43) is set to become the third woman Chief Minister of Delhi after Congress’s Sheila Dikshit (who ruled for 15 years) and BJP leader and former Union Minister and BJP leader Sushma Swaraj, who took office for 52 days in 1998. This marks the return of a woman chief minister in Delhi in over a decade since Sheila Dikshit’s rule from 1998 to 2013.
While Atishi will become one of the youngest women chief ministers in India, the record for the youngest woman chief minister to date is held by Mayawati, who took over the top post in Uttar Pradesh at 39. Mayawati is also the woman leader to have completed her five-year term as the Chief Minister apart from her male counterparts — Akhilesh Yadav and current Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.
Other than Mayawati, another prominent young woman chief minister to hold the chief minister’s office was Rabri Devi, the wife of RJD chief Lalu Yadav, in 1997. She was 42 when she took over after her husband was arrested for corruption charges in the fodder scam. She ruled Bihar till 2005.
AIADMK’s dynamic leader Jayalalithaa became one of the youngest and the first woman Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu at the age of 43 in 1991. However, her tenure as the Chief Minister was very controversial. On September 29, 2014, Jayalalithaa became the first ever sitting Chief Minister to be arrested immediately following her conviction by a special court in Bengaluru in a disproportionate assets case.
BJP leader and former Union Minister Uma Bharti became the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh at the age of 44.
Among the lesser-known women leaders, Shashikala Kakodkar became the first woman Chief Minister of Goa at 38, while Nandini Satpathy was the Chief Minister of Odisha when she was 41 years old.
Syeda Anwara Taimur was the only female and Muslim Chief Minister of Assam, assuming the post at the age of 44 in 1980.
Interestingly, in most of these cases, the new chief ministers were either appointed as successors because a sitting chief minister was arrested under criminal or corruption charges.
The case of Atishi being appointed as the Chief Minister of Delhi brings back the history of sitting chief ministers like Lalu Yadav and Jayalalithaa, who faced arrests while holding their posts.
In the case of Jayalalithaa, it is famously known that on the day of the verdict, she flew out in a helicopter from Chennai to Bengaluru praying for an acquittal in the disproportionate assets case. But she was convicted and was driven straight to jail from where she named O Paneerselvam as her successor.
Meanwhile, Atishi is facing ‘puppet CM’ barbs from the BJP in Delhi ahead of the crucial Assembly polls slated for next year. However, AAP has made it clear that Arvind Kejriwal would return as the Chief Minister if the party wins in the upcoming elections.