BJP and Congress jockey for power in Uttarakhand as the rival parties claimed on Thursday they will form the next government intensifying efforts to woo independents and BSP legislators to their side to muster the required majority.

Congress said it would form the government in the hill state after the new CLP leader is chosen by the party high command.

"Let the new leader be chosen by the party high command, thereafter we will form government also," said state PCC chief Yashpal Arya, a day after Congress president Sonia Gandhi was authorised to choose the new leader of the Congress Legislature Party (CLP).

Congress, which is inching close to form new government, also claimed it has mustered the required numbers for the same.

"We have all the numbers which are enough to form new government," Arya told reporters in Dehradun.

While Congress has emerged as the single largest party with 32 seats in the 70-member House, BJP finished one less seat in a cliff-hanger contest for the state assembly polls.