BJP Reacts to Arvinder Lovely’s Resignation, Highlights AAP’s Alleged Sonia Gandhi Arrest Promise

BJP Reacts to Arvinder Lovely’s Resignation, Highlights AAP’s Alleged Sonia Gandhi Arrest Promise

AAP has “completely obliterated the existence” of the Mallikarjun Kharge-led Delhi Congress party, the BJP said on Sunday in response to the shocking resignation of Delhi Congress head Arvinder Singh Lovely during the Lok Sabha polls due to the party’s alliance with the ruling Aam Aadmi Party. BJP leader Shehzad Poonawalla brought attention to the purported inconsistencies in the AAP-Congress coalition in Delhi, reminding Arvind Kejriwal’s party of its pledge to detain Sonia Gandhi and the late former chief minister of Delhi, Sheila Dikshit. “The Congress party is rife with contradiction, confusion, and conflict; it lacks any kind of aim or vision. We’ve observed how this has been going, particularly in Delhi. Congress party workers were seen in the streets of Delhi demonstrating against the issuance of tickets to individuals with no connection to the city, such as Kanhaiya Kumar, who had insulted the armed forces and referred to the Naxalites as martyrs.

According to Lovely, local officials were opposed to the merger with the AAP because the latter was founded following the leveling of false accusations of corruption against the Congress, which at the time held power in both the Central and Delhi regions. The Delhi Congress unit opposed forming an agreement with a party that was founded only to accuse the Congress of being involved in contrived, fictitious, and malicious corruption. Arvinder Singh Lovely resigned, saying that “the party decided to ally with the AAP in Delhi despite that.” According to Poonawalla, the two parties only joined together for political purposes. He added that the hypocrisy of the party was the reason the leaders were quitting.

“The AAP utterly destroyed the Congress party’s reputation in Delhi by threatening to imprison Sonia Gandhi and Sheila Dikshit. The AAP’s role in the booze scam was a point of contention for the Congress. However, just because they have united for political purposes does not guarantee that the electorate will follow suit. Because its leaders are exposing Congress’s duplicity, Congress is currently unable to retain its leaders,” he stated. Arvinder Singh Lovely, who took over as head of the Delhi Congress unit in August 2023, stated that the AICC General Secretary (Delhi In-Charge) opposed a number of his choices. He also mentioned that all of the AAP’s key leaders were incarcerated. The remarks made by Kanhaiya Kumar, the contender for North-East Delhi, endearing the AAP’s leadership were deemed “ill-thought and factually incorrect” by Arvinder Singh Lovely.

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“Such ill-considered and factually incorrect statements have not gone down well with the local party unit since the local party workers had an innate understanding that the alliance was a compromise—made to increase the party’s chances of victory as part of the National Alliance—rather than being done in appreciation of AAP’s false propaganda of Delhi’s development,” he continued. AAP formation occurred in 2012, following a statewide protest led by Arvind Kejriwal and his allies against the Congress government at the federal level over their demands for the appointment of Lokpal, an anti-corruption ombudsman. The AAP overthrew the Congress administration in 2013 following a 49-day partnership with the BJP.