‘Not Becoming a member of Any Different Social gathering’: Delhi Congress Chief After Quitting Social gathering Put up

Hours after stepping down from the put up of the Delhi Congress chief, Arvinder Singh Beautiful on Sunday clarified that he’s not becoming a member of any social gathering. Beautiful stated he has not resigned from the first membership of the Congress and solely stepped down from the put up, citing the alliance with the AAP as one of many causes.

Addressing the media after tendering his resignation, Beautiful thanked the Congress employees and senior leaders who got here to help him and stated, “Mentioning the ideas and the ache felt by the Congress employees, I’ve resigned from the put up of Delhi Congress chief. I wish to thank the Congress employees who got here to fulfill me.”

He additionally clarified that he has not resigned from the social gathering, however simply from his put up as Delhi Congress chief and stated he’s not becoming a member of some other social gathering.

“The explanation for the resignation isn’t as a result of I didn’t get the ticket…This was due to the principals,” he added.

Beautiful’s Resignation As Delhi Congress Chief

In a setback to the Congress forward of the Lok Sabha polls, senior chief Arvinder Singh Beautiful resigned from the put up of social gathering’s Delhi unit chief. In his resignation letter despatched to Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, Beautiful stated that he discovered himself “handicapped” as all unanimous selections taken by senior Delhi unit leaders have been “unilaterally vetoed” by AICC Delhi in-charge Deepak Babria.

This comes days after former Delhi minister and AICC member Rajkumar Chauhan resigned from the social gathering following an altercation with Babria.

In his letter to Kharge, Beautiful stated, “It’s with a heavy coronary heart that I write the current letter to you discovering myself handicapped and unable to proceed because the President of the Delhi social gathering unit.”

“I had gratefully accepted the position because the DPCC President with the only goal of supporting the native Congress social gathering employees with whom I’ve a particularly shut connection and life-long affiliation.

“Nevertheless, since I can not shield the pursuits of the social gathering employees, I see no motive to proceed within the stated put up. Subsequently, with nice remorse and a particularly leaden coronary heart, I, Arvinder Singh Beautiful, do hereby tender my resignation from the put up of DPCC President,” he stated.

Beautiful stated although the Delhi Congress unit was towards the alliance with the AAP, he publicly backed it and made positive that the whole unit “fell in keeping with the excessive command’s ultimate order”.

He stated that he even withdrew his title as a possible candidate for the Lok Sabha polls within the curiosity of the social gathering and in order that different senior leaders might get tickets.

Beautiful additionally criticised Congress North East Delhi candidate Kanhaiya Kumar for heaping reward on Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who’s behind bars in a cash laundering case.

“The candidate from North East Delhi has additionally been giving media bytes falsely praising the Delhi CM, in direct contravention of the social gathering line and the native social gathering employees’ beliefs. In direct contradiction to the true factual place and the distress of Delhi Residents, he endorsed the false propaganda of AAP in regard to the supposed works performed by them in schooling, well being, highway and electrical energy sectors,” he stated.

“Such ill-thought and factually incorrect statements haven’t gone down properly” with the Delhi Congress unit since “the native social gathering employees had an inherent understanding that the alliance was not performed in appreciation of AAP’s false propaganda of the event of Delhi,” he stated.

In actual fact, he added, the alliance was a “compromise” to enhance the probabilities of victory of the Congress within the Lok Sabha polls.

The Congress and the AAP are constituents of the INDIA bloc fashioned by opposition events to tackle the BJP within the Lok Sabha elections. Whereas the AAP is contesting 4 Lok Sabha seats in Delhi, the Congress has fielded candidates on three.

The BJP had received all of the seven Lok Sabha seats in Delhi within the 2014 and 2019 basic elections.

Beautiful additional stated he was unable to proceed because the social gathering unit chief as “all unanimous selections taken by the senior Delhi Congress leaders have been unilaterally vetoed by the AICC Normal Secretary (Delhi in-charge)”.

A minister within the Sheila Dikshit authorities, Beautiful was appointed because the Delhi Congress chief in August final 12 months.

He alleged that AICC in-charge Babria compelled him to droop senior social gathering chief Raj Kumar Chauhan.

He additional lamented that no senior AICC chief has spoken to him about pacifying the social gathering employees who’re sad with the choice and protested exterior the DPCC workplace when the chosen candidates have been being launched to the media.

Beautiful was first elected as an MLA in 1998 from Gandhi Nagar. He served because the minister of transport, schooling, city improvement and income within the Congress authorities in Delhi.

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