India, Feb. 19 -- The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)'s newly-elected lawmakers will meet around 7pm on Wednesday to pick the next Delhi chief minister 11 days after the party was voted back to power in the national Capital after 27 years.

BJP leaders remained tight-lipped over who would be the chief minister. Parvesh Verma, who defeated former chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, Rekha Gupta, Vijender Gupta, Satish Upadhyay, Ashish Sood, Pawan Sharma, and Ajay Mahawar were among the front runners for the post.

The BJP ended the decade-long Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) rule by winning 48 seats in the 70-member House. The AAP bagged 22 seats.

The swearing-in ceremony of the new chief minister is scheduled for Thursday morning at the Ramlila Maidan. Pr...