AAP wants your yes or no via SMS and Facebook on forming govt in Delhi

New Delhi - To form a government in Delhi with Congress' support or to seek a re-election? Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) wants to know the answer from the voters of Delhi.

As such, the party has written a letter explaining its "dharma-sankat" (dilemma) and will distribute 25 lakh copies of the letter in the city to ask the people what they think.

The opinion (yes or no) will be collected through SMS, IVR, party website, Facebook and people's assemblies in 270 municipal wards. (Click here to express your opinion )

Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung recommends President's rule in Delhi

Delhi's Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung has recommended keeping the newly elected Assembly in suspended animation, sources said on Monday.

According to sources, the LG has submitted a report to the Ministry of Home Affairs over the deadlock in the national capital in the wake of recently held election. He has recommended bringing Delhi under the central rule, sources said.

The development comes in the wake of a hung verdict following which the BJP, which emerged as the single largest party, refused the LG's invitation to form the government saying it did not have enough support to prove the majority in the 70-member House.

The next biggest party, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), has also expressed its unwillingness to form the government despite a letter from the Congress to the LG, committing its outside support. Even the BJP had offered its support to AAP to form the government.

The LG had on Saturday sent a detailed report to President Pranab Mukherjee about the political situation in Delhi and mentioned that government-formation was not possible. The tenure of the current Assembly ends on December 18 and President's rule has to be imposed after that if a government is not put in place by then, officials said.

The AAP on Saturday had put the onus on the Congress and the BJP for taking its support to form a government by putting forth 18 conditions and wanting to know their views on them, a move seen as an attempt to rebut criticism that it was shying away from taking responsibility.

BJP, along with its ally Akali Dal's one seat, has 32 MLAs in the House while AAP has 28 seats, followed by Congress's eight. JD-U won one seat, while there is one Independent MLA.