Arvinder Singh Lovely back in BJP, days after resigning as Delhi Congress chief

Speaking to reporters after joining the saffron party, Lovely said he met his supporters and several Congress workers following his resignation, who urged him “not to sit at home but join a strong party to fight for the people of Delhi.”

Earlier Lovely had made it clear that he has only quit the party post and not the party, although a section of the Congress leadership as well as AAP leaders believed that he would be joining the BJP again.

Lovely’s resignation on April 28 was a setback to the party in terms of optics and perception. Coming four days after former Delhi minister Rajkumar Chauhan quit the party, the resignation of Lovely, who has been heading the Delhi unit since August last year, has been a blow to the Congress’s efforts for the May 25 elections in Delhi.

Following the announcement of the resignation, AAP minister Saurabh Bharadwaj has taken to X (formerly Twitter) to allude to alleged links between Lovely and the BJP. It was the second time that Lovely had stepped down as the Delhi Congress president.

Lovely’s resignation came a day after more than a thousand members of the Sikh community, including office-bearers of the Delhi Sikh Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee, joined the BJP in the presence of its national president J P Nadda.