Lok Sabha Elections 2024: When ex-Congress leader Arvinder Singh Lovely said he was 'ideological misfit' in BJP

After his April 28 resignation, Lovely claimed helium would not articulation immoderate governmental enactment and had simply resigned from the post, and not from the party.

With his induction successful the BJP connected Saturday, however, Lovely has joined the agelong database of Congress turncoats who person switched to the saffron enactment during the ongoing Lok Sabha Elections 2024. 

Resigned doubly arsenic Delhi Cong Chief 

This is not the archetypal clip that Lovely, 55, has defected from the Congress for the BJP. In fact, it is the 2nd clip successful little than 10 years erstwhile helium has discontinue arsenic Delhi Congress main and joined the BJP.  

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In February 2015, Lovely resigned from the post of Delhi Congress main aft the expansive aged party’s worst-ever show successful the Delhi Assembly elections. The Congress, which had ruled the nationalist superior for 15 years nether Chief Minister Shiela Dikshit, failed to triumph adjacent 1 spot successful the 70-member Delhi Assembly. 

Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) had swept the elections winning 67 seats. The remaining 3 seats were bagged by the BJP.  Lovely, four-time erstwhile Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) tendered his resignation to the past Congress president Sonia Gandhi aft taking motivation work for the predetermination debacle.

Two years later, connected May 11, 2017, Lovely joined the BJP, a week up of Delhi municipal elections. He had levelled bribery allegations against the Congress enactment during the organisation of tickets up of municipal polls. The BJP won the Delhi municipal polls successful 2017.

'Ideological Misfit successful BJP'

However, 9 months later, connected February 17, 2018, Lovely was re-inducted into the Congress soon aft a gathering with the past enactment president Rahul Gandhi.

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“Quitting Congress was not a blessed decision…I was an ideological misfit successful BJP. It didn't instrumentality agelong to realise that. Then I told myself, I should bash arsenic overmuch arsenic I tin for my genitor party."  Lovely had told reporters in Delhi soon aft joining the Congress party.  Lovely was made the Delhi Congress president again successful August 2023.

Four-term ex- MLA 

Lovely was a cardinal curate successful precocious Sheila Dikshit-led Delhi government. He has won Delhi Assembly Elections four times since 1998 and has held important portfolios specified arsenic education, tourism, municipality improvement and transport arsenic a curate successful Congress government. 

Lovely unsuccessfully contested the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections on a Congress summons from East Delhi seat. He lost. BJP campaigner Gautam Gambhir won.

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Published: 04 May 2024, 07:48 PM IST