Who will be the new Delhi CM? BJP legislative party to meet tomorrow

Ending its 27 years of exile from power, the BJP won the recently concluded Delhi assembly elections with 48 seats.

The wait for new Delhi chief minister is likely to end tomorrow.  The Bharatiya Janata Party's legislative party meeting will be held on Monday at 3pm, ANI reported citing sources. The BJP won 48 out of 70 seats in Delhi, ending the rule of Aam Aadmi Party in the capital. ANI citing sources also reported that Delhi CM's swearing-in ceremony may take place at the Ramlila ground on February 18.

Amid the buzz about the yet-to-be announced Delhi CM, the BJP national president and Union minister JP Nadda on Saturday chaired the BJP national general secretary meeting at the BJP headquarters in Delhi. However, the CM face of Delhi is still a suspense as the BJP has not made any announcement yet.

The AAP, which ruled Delhi for more than 10 years, ended up winning just 22 seats in the hotly contested elections, the results of which were declared on February 8.

The BJP is set to appoint observers for holding talks with the newly elected party MLAs as the process to finalise the new chief minister of Delhi.

Among the newly-elected MLAs, the names of Parvesh Verma, the BJP's Jat face in the capital who defeated Kejriwal from the New Delhi seat, and former Delhi BJP presidents Vijender Gupta and Satish Upadhyay have been cited as frontrunners for the chief minister's post.

According to ongoing speculations in the BJP, some names doing the rounds include Parvesh Verma, who defeated former CM Arvind Kejriwal from New Delhi, Shalimar Bagh MLA Rekha Gupta, Vijender Gupta from Rohini, Satish Upadhyay from Malviya Nagar, Ashish Sood in Janakpuri, Pawan Sharma in Uttam Nagar, and Ajay Mahawar from Ghonda, among others.