Lovely claimed that he is not joining any other political party. resign The pain of Congress workers is visible because “the ideals for which they were fighting for the last seven-eight years” are being compromised. ”We are fighting the elections together, but Congress workers never said that we are giving them a clean chit (AAP) or giving them credit for construction of schools and hospitals, which is far from the reality, Lovely said.
In his resignation letter sent to Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, Lovely said the state unit was against the alliance, but the high command still went ahead with it. He also expressed displeasure over the appointment of Kanhaiya Kumar from North East Delhi and Udit Raj from North West Delhi as Congress candidates.
This is not the first time that Lovely has given a surprise. In 2017, he left the party and joined BJP, but later returned to Congress in 2018.
Lovely said that all unanimous decisions taken by senior Delhi Congress functionaries were unilaterally vetoed by AICC general secretary Delhi in-charge (Deepak Babaria), and the state unit was not even informed about the decisions, including Lok Sabha candidate selection. Lovely, who was appointed state president last year, said even though the Delhi Congress unit was against the alliance with AAP, he publicly supported it and ensured that the entire unit was “in line with the final order of the high command”. . “The Delhi Congress unit was against the alliance with a party that was formed on the sole basis of leveling false, fabricated and malicious corruption allegations against the Congress… Half of (AAP’s) cabinet ministers are currently in jail on corruption charges Despite this, the party (Congress) decided to forge an alliance with AAP. I also went to CM (Arvind) Kejriwal’s residence on the night of his arrest. , “With Subhash Chopra and Sandeep Dixit, despite being against my position on the matter.”
As alliance partners in Delhi, AAP is contesting on four seats: East, New Delhi, South and West, while Congress is contesting on the remaining three seats – North East, North West and Chandni Chowk.
“Since my appointment as DPCC President, the AICC General Secretary Delhi in-charge has not allowed me to make any senior appointment in the DPCC. My request for appointment of an experienced leader as the Media Chief of the DPCC has been clearly rejected. Was rejected. Till date, they have not allowed the DPCC to appoint all the block presidents in the city,” Lovely said. As a result, more than 150 blocks in Delhi have no block president.”
He alleged that Babariya pressured him to suspend senior party functionary Raj Kumar Chauhan. “Instead of calming the situation, he held public meetings with Sandeep Dixit, (former MP), Raj Kumar Chauhan (former Delhi Minister), Bheeshma Sharma (former MLA) and Surendra Kumar (former MLA),” he wrote in his letter.
AAP officials were in a wait-and-see mode and largely refrained from commenting on the developments. However, Minister Saurabh Bhardwaj said, “Congress is our coalition partner and this is an internal matter of the party; so I believe it would be better if they (Congress) speak about this.”
Lovely also criticized Congress’ North East Delhi candidate Kanhaiya Kumar, who has been arrested in an alleged money laundering case related to the Delhi Excise policy, for praising CM Kejriwal.
“Candidates from North East Delhi are also giving media bytes falsely praising the Delhi CM, in direct violation of the party line and the beliefs of local party workers. In direct contradiction to the true factual position and the suffering of the citizens of Delhi, they have supported “False propaganda of AAP about the alleged work done by them in education, health, roads and power sectors,” he said.
“Such wrong views and factually incorrect statements did not go down well with the Delhi Congress unit as the local party workers had the implicit understanding that the alliance was not made to appreciate AAP’s false propaganda of Delhi’s development… but (as ) An agreement to improve the chances of Congress victory in the Lok Sabha elections.”
Lovely said: “It appears that the candidates from North East Delhi are unaware of the fact that the condition of schools, hospitals and public infrastructure in Delhi under the AAP government is seriously worse than the development work done under the late Sheila. It has deteriorated since.” Dixit ji’s Congress rule,” Lovely said.
