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Congress leader Arvinder Singh Lovely on Sunday resigned as the party’s Delhi unit chief over alliance with the Aam Aadmi Party in the ongoing Lok Sabha polls. Lovely said the state unit of the grand old party was against the alliance but the top brass still made a decision to form a coalition with the AAP in Delhi.

“The Delhi Congress Unit was against an alliance with a Party which was formed on the sole basis of leveling false, fabricated and malafide corruption charges against the Congress Party. Despite that, the Party made a decision to ally with the AAP in Delhi,” he wrote in a letter to Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge.   

Arvinder Singh Lovely's resignation comes shortly after the resignation of former Delhi minister and All India Congress Committee member Rajkumar Chauhan from the party, after the meeting of the Delhi Congress' disciplinary committee.

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the Congress have been contesting seven Lok Sabha seats of Delhi in coalition. The AAP is contesting four seats, while the Congress fielded candidates in three constituencies. The pact was finalised in February. However, both INDIA block parties are at loggerheads in Punjab and the state leaderships of both factions categorically conveyed that the coalition was not possible in the state. 

In his four-page resignation letter,  Lovely has levelled serious allegations against the party's Delhi in-charge, Deepak Babaria. He said he was not capable of running the party in the state as his recommendations were not taken into consideration. He also said the Congress-AAP alliance in Delhi was finalised without approval from the party’s state unit.