in a setback to the congress ahead of the lok sabha polls, senior leader arvinder singh lovely has resigned as the party’s delhi unit chief, citing the alliance with the aap as one of the reasons. he said the delhi congress unit was against the alliance but the party high command went ahead with it. in his resignation letter sent to congress president mallikarjun kharge on saturday, lovely also said that he found himself “handicapped” as all unanimous decisions taken by senior delhi unit leaders have been “
A key part of the Sheila Dikshit cabinet for 15 years, Lovely had quit Congress in 2017 and joined BJP for 9 months but declared the move a mistake before returning to the grand old party.
Ahead of the Opposition bloc INDIA meeting next week, there are rumblings within the Congress whether it “politically erred” in extending unconditional support to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Parliament over the contentious Delhi Services Bill against the wish of large number of senior party
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) vehemently refuted the claims made by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) saying during the tenure of the Sheila Dikshit Government, the Chief Minister possessed complete authority over transfer-posting powers.
“However, immediately after the AAP assumed power in 2015, the
NEW DELHI, Sept 13: The Congress on Tuesday accused the Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP of getting its Punjab Government to spend on advertisements in poll-bound Gujarat, calling it the “Arvind Advertisement Party”. The Congress alleged that the Bhagwant Mann-led Punjab Government is unable to pay salaries of employees but spent Rs 36 crore in two months on advertisements in Gujarat. Addressing a press conference at the AICC headquarters here, Congress leader Ajoy Kumar said the AAP should be called the “Arvind […]