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Delhi Congress Chief Arvinder Singh Lovely Quits Post

Lok Sabha Polls 2024: Arvinder Singh Lovely is a four-term MLA from Gandhi Nagar. He has been a minister in the Congress government in Delhi.

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Updated Apr 28, 2024, 13:58 IST

Arvinder Singh Lovely

New Delhi: Delhi Congress chief Arvinder Singh Lovely has resigned from his post. According to sources, Lovely was unhappy with the nomination of Kanhaiya Kumar from North East Delhi.

In his resignation letter sent to Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Saturday, Lovely also said that all unanimous decisions taken by the senior Delhi unit leaders have been "unilaterally vetoed" by AICC Delhi in-charge Deepak Babria.

Lovely also said even though the Delhi Congress unit was against the alliance with the AAP, he publicly backed it and made sure that the entire unit "fell in line with the high command's final order".

Lovely also criticised Kanhaiya Kumar for praising Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who is behind bars in a money laundering case. "The candidate from North-East Delhi has also been giving media bytes falsely praising the Delhi CM, in direct contravention of the party line and the local party workers' beliefs.

"In direct contradiction to the true factual position and the misery of Delhi Citizens, he endorsed the false propaganda of AAP in regard to the supposed works done by them in education, health, road and electricity sectors," he said.

"Such ill-thought and factually incorrect statements have not gone down well" with the Delhi Congress unit since "the local party workers had an inherent understanding that the alliance was not done in appreciation of AAP's false propaganda of the development of Delhi," he said.

This comes days after former Delhi minister and AICC member Rajkumar Chauhan resigned from the party following an altercation with Babria.

Many senior Congress leaders in Delhi unit, including Harun Yusuf, Rajkumar chauhan, Jai Kishan, Bhism Sharma had expressed displeasure over the candidature of Udit Raj and Kanhaiya Kumar.

Recently, Rajkumar Chauhan had resigned from the Congress party over the issue.

BJP took a dig at the Congress, accusing the party of neglecting the concerns raised by senior leaders like Lovely.

Earlier this week, Congress workers had staged a massive protest against ticket distribution in Lok Sabha elections outside the Congress office in Delhi. They gathered in large numbers and raised slogans of 'Baahari ummeedwaar nahi chalega'.

Lok Sabha Elections in Delhi will be held on May 25.

With inputs from PTI

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