The Supreme Court has agreed to
hear on Monday the Aam Aadmi Party's plea seeking a direction to the Lieutenant Governor to dissolve Delhi Assembly and hold fresh polls along with Lok Sabha elections.

The bench headed by Chief Justice P Sathasivam said that it will hear the petition on February 24. Appearing for AAP, Prashant Bhushan said, there is no possibility of any alternate government in Delhi and the Lieutenant Governor should have dissolved the Assembly.

The joint petition filed by AAP and the former minister Saurabh Bhardwaj challenged the decision to impose President's rule in Delhi on the recommendation of Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung. The petitioners alleged that it was done to protect Congress leaders and former Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit from corruption charges.

It contended that the February 16 order imposing President's rule was with a motive to frustrate the ongoing investigations in those corruption cases in which FIR has been lodged by the Arvind Kejriwal government.