New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal will on Wednesday meet Lt Governor Najeeb Jung and urge him to "revise" his September 4 letter to President Pranab Mukherjee seeking permission to invite the Bharatiya Janata Party to form a "stable government".
His meeting with Jung comes a day after the Supreme Court gave the central government a month to end the deadlock over government formation in Delhi.
The BJP has, however, defended Jung's letter to the President.
"The LG is following the constitutional process by inviting the single largest party to form the government," said Satish Upadhyay, president of the Delhi BJP.
"If and when we get the invite, we will critically analyse our strength," he said.
The Delhi Assembly was placed under suspended animation after the Aam Aadmi Party government resigned in February, ending 49 days of governance by Kejriwal.
The AAP is insisting on fresh elections, underlining that no single party enjoyed legislative majority in the assembly to form a government.
The impasse in the capital got sullied on Monday when the AAP released a covertly shot video showing a BJP leader - since pulled up by the party - offering money to an AAP legislator to resign from the Assembly.
The BJP now has 28 legislators after three got elected to the Lok Sabha.
The AAP has 27 and the Congress eight.
(With IANS inputs)
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