Hours after stepping down from the post of the Delhi Congress chief, Arvinder Singh Lovely on Sunday clarified that he is not joining any party. Lovely said he has not resigned from the primary membership of the Congress and only stepped down from the post, citing the alliance with the AAP as one of the reasons.
Addressing the media after tendering his resignation, Lovely thanked the Congress workers and senior leaders who came to support him and said, “Mentioning the principles and the pain felt by the Congress workers, I have resigned from the post of Delhi Congress chief. I want to thank the Congress workers who came to meet me.”
He also clarified that he has not resigned from the party, but just from his post as Delhi Congress chief and said he is not joining any other party.
“The reason for the resignation is not because I didn’t get the ticket…This was because of the principals,” he added.
His clarification came after Congress ex-MLA Asif Mohammad Khan claimed that the BJP would field Lovely from the East Delhi constituency, replacing Harsh Malhotra.
Lovely said his resignation reflected the pain of Congress workers saddened by the fact that the “ideals they had been fighting for during the last seven to eight years” were being compromised.
“We are fighting the elections together but never did the Congress workers say that we are giving a clean chit to them or giving them credit for building schools and hospitals, which is far from the reality,” Lovely said, referring to the party’s tie-up with the AAP in Delhi for the Lok Sabha polls.
With inputs from News18
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