On Sunday former Delhi minister Arvinder Singh Lovely resigned as Delhi Congress president, highlighting issues ranging from the party’s alliance with its INDIA bloc ally Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) to the Lok Sabha elections 2024 candidates the Congress fielded for three seats in the capital.
According to the media reports, Lovely’s office confirmed that he had tendered his resignation. This was the second time that Lovely stepped down from the post of Delhi Congress chief. He also resigned in 2015, when the AAP swept the Assembly polls, winning 67 out of 70 seats.
Like Rajkumar Chauhan, Lovely also cited issues related to the functioning of the AICC in charge of Delhi and Haryana, Deepak Babaria, and made allegations against his conduct.
According to the media reports, these leaders, may not necessarily join the BJP but were likely to form a new front against corruption in the city after formally exiting the Congress fold.
As per the party sources Lovely, who had resigned from the Congress in 2017 and joined the BJP before returning to the party’s fold around nine months later, could be under pressure from the BJP.
‘He had not been coming to the party’s Delhi headquarters for many days and this cannot be a reaction to the alliance with the AAP; the sole reason why he was put in charge of the Delhi unit was to ensure that the alliance went through smoothly’, a senior Delhi Congress leader said.
The development also set the cat among the pigeons in the AAP, with insiders from the party expressing the possibility of Lovely joining the BJP and being fielded for the Lok Sabha elections.
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