The BJP legislature party meeting will be held at the party's Delhi unit office this evening.
Days after storming to power in the 2025 Delhi assembly election, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is set to decide on Delhi's chief minister. The BJP legislature party meeting will be held at the party's Delhi unit office this evening, reported PTI.
The BJP has come to power after 26 years, defeating the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in the February 5 Delhi Assembly polls.
As per the reports, the meeting will be held in the presence of BJP's central observers, whose names are yet to be declared. The new chief minister, after being chosen by the party MLAs, will meet Delhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena at the Raj Niwas to stake a claim to power.
The new chief minister will likely take oath on February 20 at Ramlila Maida. Preparations for the oath ceremony are in full swing at the Ramlila Ground.
While preparations are in full swing for the swearing-in ceremony of the new government at Ramleela Ground on Thursday afternoon, around 50,000 people, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, his cabinet colleagues, and the chief ministers of NDA-ruled states, among other guests, will attend the ceremony, reports suggest.
Dethroning the Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in the Delhi Assembly Elections 2025, the BJP on February 8 returned to power in the national capital after more than 26 years.
The party ended the decade-long rule of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), winning 48 seats in the 70-member House to AAP's 22.
The victory was sweetened for the BJP by the defeat of AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal, who lost his New Delhi seat to Parvesh Verma.
The names doing the rounds for the new chief minister include Parvesh Verma, who defeated AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal; former Delhi BJP presidents Vijender Gupta and Satish Upadhyay; and other leaders such as Pawan Sharma, Ashish Sood, Rekha Gupta, and Shikha Rai.
The names of Ravinder Indraj Singh, the MLA from the Bawana (SC) seat, and Kailash Gangwal, who won the Madipur (SC) seat for the BJP for the first time, are also being discussed.
Many within the party believe that the BJP leadership could choose a "dark horse" as Delhi's next chief minister, a strategy the party opted for in Rajasthan, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, and Chhattisgarh.