Former Congress Delhi President Arvinder Singh Lovely joins BJP

Former Congress Delhi President Arvinder Singh Lovely joins BJP

Former Congress Delhi President Arvinder Singh Lovely on Saturday (May 4) joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) days after resigning from the party.

Lovely joined the saffron party in the presence of Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri, BJP General Secretary Vinod Tawde and Delhi BJP chief Virendra Sachdeva.

Along with Lovely, several other leaders including former Congress MLAs Raj Kumar Chauhan, Naseeb Singh and Neeraj Basoya and former Youth Congress President Amit Mallik joined the BJP.

After joining the party, Lovely said, “I had resigned from the post of Delhi Congress President and after that, I met all my colleagues and thousands of Congress workers. All those people said that you should not sit at home and should continue fighting for the people of Delhi and the country.”

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Lovely wrote letter to Kharge

Lovely, who stepped down from the post of the Delhi Congress chief on April 28, wrote a letter to Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge citing that he was against the alliance between Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Delhi.

“The Delhi Congress unit was against an alliance with a party which was formed on the sole basis of levelling false, fabricated and malafide corruption charges against the Congress party. Despite that, the party made a decision to ally with the AAP in Delhi…,” Arvinder Singh Lovely wrote in his resignation letter.

He further underlined that the remarks made by the North-East Delhi candidate Kanhaiya Kumar where he made “factually incorrect statements” and falsely praised Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, did not go well with the local party unit.

“Such ill-thought and factually incorrect statements have not gone down well with the local party 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 and was in fact, a “compromise to improve the chances of victory for the party as part of the National Alliance,” he said.

Voting for all the seven Lok Sabha constituencies in Delhi is scheduled to take place on May 25, which is the sixth phase of the ongoing general elections.

The results of the polls will be announced on June 4.

(With inputs from agencies)