EC holds meeting to decide on Delhi election date
Sources said a mid-February date for polling is expected to be announced for a one-day poll.
Delhi has not had a chief minister since Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal quit after 49 days in office in February last year. In elections held in December 2013, the capital had delivered a fractured mandate.
The Delhi assembly was dissolved in November last year after all three major parties - the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the Congress and AAP had said they were not in a position to form the government.
The BJP had emerged as the single largest party but was a few seats short of a majority and had declined an invitation to form government saying it could not make up the numbers.
Meanwhile, AAP representatives also appealed to voters in Delhi to give it a majority and Kejriwaal the chance to be chief minister for a longer term this time, media reports said.
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