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Congress Has No Mission Or Vision: BJP On Arvinder Singh Lovely Quitting As Delhi Congress Chief

Arvinder Singh Lovely stepped down as Delhi Congress president over a disagreement with the party’s decision to form an alliance with the AAP for the Lok Sabha elections.

Following Arvinder Singh Lovely's resignation as Delhi Congress Committee president, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Shehzad Poonawalla said the Congress "doesn’t have a mission or vision and is seeped in confusion and contradiction". “We have seen how this has been playing out, especially in Delhi,” he added, as quoted by ANI. 

He said Congress workers were on the streets of Delhi to protest against the grant of tickets to "several people who had nothing to do with Delhi". Giving the example of Kanhaiya Kumar, Poonawalla said, the former JNU Student Union chief had abused the armed forces and said the Naxalites were martyrs. 

“AAP [Aam Aadmi Party] had completely obliterated the existence of Congress in Delhi, saying they would put [late former Delhi CM] Sheila Dikshit and [former Congress chief] Sonia Gandhi in jail,” Poonawalla added. 

The Congress, he said, had complained about how AAP "was involved in the liquor scam". "But for political reasons they came together, that does not mean the voters will come together,” he added. 

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“Today the Congress is unable to retain its leaders because its own leaders are showing the mirror to Congress for its hypocrisy,” Poonawalla said.

Arvinder Singh Lovely stepped down as Delhi Congress chief over a disagreement with the party’s decision to form an alliance with the AAP for the Lok Sabha election. In his resignation letter, he said, “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.”

When AAP leader Saurabh Bharadwaj was asked about Arvinder Singh Lovely quitting as Delhi Congress chief, he said the Congress was an alliance partner but "it is a party matter". "Congress is our alliance partner and this is the internal matter of the party, hence I believe, it's better that they [Congress] speak about it."

Lovely's resignation comes days after former Delhi minister and AICC member Rajkumar Chauhan resigned from the party following an altercation with the Congress general secretary in-charge of Delhi, Deepak Babaria, during a meeting on Sunday.

In his resignation letter to Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, written on Saturday, Lovely also said that all unanimous decisions taken by the senior Delhi unit leaders have been "unilaterally vetoed" by Babaria.

 

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