New Delhi: The expansion of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Union Cabinet is likely to have an impact on the Assembly elections in Delhi. While reshuffling his Cabinet at the Centre, Modi relieved Dr Harsh Vardhan from the Health Ministry.
If reports are to be believed, there is a buzz doing the rounds that he might return to take charge of the politics in the national capital ahead of the assembly polls in the state.
Dr Harsh Vardhan who has been replaced by JP Nadda on the Health and Family Welfare portfolio, has now been shifted to the Science and Technology and Earth Sciences Ministry.
The BJP is facing immense criticism from both the Congress and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), who are accusing the BJP of going for polls only after realising that no MLA was up for sale.
The fight in Delhi is being viewed as a battle between AAP's Arvind Kejriwal and senior BJP leader Jagdish Mukhi while the Congress party has not named its chief ministerial candidate.
The Union Cabinet had last week decided to dissolve the Delhi Assembly after leaders of the BJP, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the Congress on Monday told Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung that none of the parties was in a position to form the government and they wanted fresh elections in Delhi.
Delhi has been under President's rule since February 17. The Delhi elections in December 2013 threw up a fractured mandate, with the BJP emerging as the single largest party, winning 31 seats and enjoying support of a lone Akali Dal legislator in a house of 70 members. But the BJP refused to form the government.
The AAP came a close second with 27 seats, and formed a minority government with the Congress backing. But the government collapsed after 49 days as chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, the AAP founder-leader, resigned after failing to get a Jan Lokpal Bill passed.
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