Amid charges of horse-trading by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), the BJP's central leadership has made up its mind to form the government in Delhi, sources told Headlines Today on Wednesday.

BJP leader Jagdish Mukhi BJP leader Jagdish Mukhi

According to sources, senior party leader Jagdish Mukhi, who happens to be the MLA from Janakpuri area, is the front-runner for Delhi chief minister's post.

Even as the BJP top brass agreed on the name of 74-year-old leader, party sources said it was waiting for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's return to India for a formal decision or announcement.

However party leader Jagdish Mukhi said that there is some misunderstanding on reports of his name being proposed for Delhi CM post.



The development comes amid allegations of horse-trading by AAP leaders Arvind Kejriwal and Ashutosh and reports of BJP wooing six of the eight Congress MLAs to defect.

Kejriwal, who headed AAP's 49-day government in the national capital, launched a scathing attack on the ruling party at the Centre alleging that it was trying to lure Congress MLAs offering Rs 6 crore to each of them in lieu of support to form the government. He also alleged that the saffron party has offered two ministerial berths and four posts of chairman to the Congress MLAs asking them to defect.

"After failing to buy any AAP MLA, BJP now trying to buy 6 cong MLAs. Price - Rs 20 crores each, 2 ministers and 4 chairmen," Kejriwal tweeted.

AAP leader Ashutosh alleged that attempts were being made "to buy AAP MLAs for last three months and this is dangerous for democracy". He urged Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung to dissolve the assembly immediately otherwise "question would be raised on his decision".

BJP had 31 MLAs in Delhi Assembly for which election was held in December 2013, but the number came down to 28 in the 70-member House as three of its MLAs - Harsh Vardhan, Ramesh Bidhuri and Pervesh Verma - were elected to Lok Sabha in the recently concluded general election. The party has support of a Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) MLA.

Meanwhile, Delhi Congress leader Mukesh Sharma strongly denied reports of party MLAs supporting BJP.

"There is no question of us supporting BJP or AAP in forming the govt in Delhi," Sharma said, adding, "Congress will never support a communal party like the BJP."

Denying charges of horse-trading, Delhi BJP president Satish Upadhyay, however, said the party will think about forming the government "if a situation like that arises".