Lovely was appointed to the publish in August 2023. In his letter to the Congress National President, Mallikarjun Kharge, Lovely stated that every one unanimous selections taken by the Senior Delhi Congress leaders have been unilaterally vetoed by the AICC General Secretary (Delhi In-charge).
Delhi Congress president Arvinder Singh Lovely has resigned from his publish, party officers on Sunday stated.
“The Delhi Congress Unit was against an alliance with a party which was formed on the sole basis of leveling 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.
Lovely was appointed to the publish in August 2023. In his letter to the Congress National President, Mallikarjun Kharge, Lovely stated that every one unanimous selections taken by the Senior Delhi Congress leaders have been unilaterally vetoed by the AICC General Secretary (Delhi In-charge).
“Since my appointment as DPCC President, the AICC General Secretary (Delhi In-charge) has not allowed me to make any senior appointments in the DPCC. My request for the appointment of a veteran leader as Media head of DPCC was blatantly rejected. To date, the AICC General Secretary (Delhi In-charge) has not allowed the DPCC to appoint all Block presidents in the city. Resultantly more than 150 blocks in Delhi do not presently have a Block President,” he stated.
Further, he stated that regardless of Aam Aadmi Party accusing the Congress over corruption, the party allied (INDIA bloc) with them.
“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 and in turn, whose half of the cabinet ministers are presently in jail on corruption charges. Despite that, the Party decided to ally with the AAP in Delhi,” Lovely stated in his letter to Kharge.
“We respected the Party’s final decision. Not only did I publicly back the decision, I also ensured that the full State Unit fell in line with the High Command’s final order. On instructions from AICC General Secretary (Organisation), I even went to the extent of visiting Kejriwal’s residence on the night of his Arrest along with Subash Chopra and Sandeep Dikshit, despite the same being against my position on the matter,” he added.
The former DPCC President additionally identified that pursuant to the alliance, the Delhi Congress was allotted three Parliamentary Seats to struggle within the current General Elections.
He additionally highlighted the feedback made by the North-East Delhi candidate (Kanhaiya Kumar), for falsely praising the Delhi CM and endorsing the works performed by AAP within the Education, Health, Road and Electricity sector.
“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 enhance the probabilities of victory for the Party as a part of the National Alliance,” he stated. Lovely, stated that since he can not defend the pursuits of the Party Workers, he sees no purpose to proceed within the stated publish.
