Dikshit had served as the Delhi chief minister from 1998 to 2013. During her tenure, she carried out massive infrastructural development in the national capital and also launched a number of social welfare schemes with involvement of resident welfare associations as part of her participatory model of governance.

After facing a major defeat at the hands of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in 2013, she mostly backed out of active politics, but returned as the chief of the Delhi Congress unit ahead of the 2019 elections.

However, Dikshit unsuccessfully fought the recent concluded LS polls from the North-East Delhi constituency where she represented New Delhi constituency in the Delhi Vidhan Sabha.

She had also served as the Governor of Kerala in 2014 for nearly five months.

Dikshit became an MP for the first time from Kannauj Lok Sabha seat in Uttar Padesh in 1984. Dikshit was also a close associate of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and was a minister in his cabinet.