Delhi's lieutenant governor Najeeb Jung had earlier sent a report to the Union home ministry recommending imposition of President's rule in the state while keeping the assembly under suspended animation.
The development is contrary to outgoing chief minister Arvind Kejriwal's call for immediate dissolution of the Delhi assembly and holding of fresh polls in the state.
Keeping the assembly under suspended animation would leave the window open for exploring alternatives for government formation in the future. Besides, it fulfils the guidelines laid down in the S R Bommai judgment of the Supreme Court that the assembly should be placed under suspended animation until Parliament ratifies the Presidential proclamation imposing President's rule.
A direct fallout of placing Delhi assembly under suspended animation is that the Delhi polls may be delinked from the Lok Sabha poll. This is expected to deny AAP the advantage of reaping rich electoral dividends in simultaneous polls.
President's rule can be imposed in a state for six months at a stretch. In case the Union Cabinet clears President' rule and the Proclamation is issued in the next couple of days, there is a possibility of the government getting the Proclamation ratified in the ongoing session itself.
The Constitutional vacuum in Delhi follows Arvind Kejriwal's resignation from the chief minister's post on Friday evening, hours after his government's move to introduce the Jan Lokpal Bill fell through in the state assembl y.
Home ministry officials said minister Sushilkumar Shinde, who is away in Maharashtra, has been briefed about the LG's report.
(With inputs from agencies)
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