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Soon after resigning from the post of Congress Delhi chief, Arvinder Singh Lovely on Sunday clarified that his resignation was not because of discontent over tickets (for Lok Sabha polls). Refuting claims about joining the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), he said that he doesn't plan to join any other political party.

"I resigned as Delhi Congress chief. I want to clarify that I have not resigned over discontent over tickets (for Lok Sabha polls). We (Congress and AAP) are contesting the (Lok Sabha) polls together but the Congress and its workers never gave a clean chit (to AAP) or gave them the credits to build schools and hospitals," he said after tendering resignation at a press conference.

"I am only leaving the chairmanship of the party but at the moment I am not leaving the party," he added.

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," Lovely said, referring to the party's tie-up with the AAP in Delhi for the Lok Sabha polls.

Lovely resigned as the leader of the Congress's Delhi unit, citing the party's partnership with the AAP as one of the reasons for the defeat ahead of the Lok Sabha elections.

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"The Delhi Congress unit was against an alliance with a party which was formed on the sole basis of levelling false, fabricated and mala fide corruption charges against the Congress party half of the cabinet ministers (of the party) are presently in jail on corruption charges," he said in his resignation letter sent to Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge on Saturday.

"Despite that, the party (Congress) made a decision to ally with the AAP in Delhi. We respected the party's final decision ... I even went to the extent of visiting Mr (Arvind) Kejriwal's residence on the night of his arrest along with Subash Chopra and Sandeep Dikshit, despite the same being against my position on the matter," he said.

(With inputs from agency)