Former Delhi Congress chief Arvinder Singh Lovely joined the Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday. Arvinder Singh resigned from the role of Delhi Congress chief recently.
Singh joined the saffron party in presence of Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri and other senior leaders of the party. Arvinder Singh resigned from the Congress’s Delhi chief post on April 28 citing unhappiness among Congress cadre in the national capital over party’s alliance with Aam Aadmi Party. Though speculations were rife that he would join the BJP then, Arvinder Singh denied those rumours and said he has resigned only from the post of PCC president.
In his resignation letter sent to party president Mallikarjun Kharge, Lovely said that he found himself "handicapped" as all unanimous decisions taken by senior Delhi unit leaders have been "unilaterally vetoed" by AICC Delhi in-charge Deepak Babria. 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," he said. Lovely was appointed the Delhi Congress chief in August last year.
Joining BJP, Singh said, "We have been given an opportunity to fight for the people of Delhi under the banner of BJP and under the leadership of Prime Minister. I have full hope and there is no doubt that the BJP government is being formed in the country with an overwhelming majority. In the coming days, the flag of the BJP will fly in Delhi too," ANI reported.
