Arvinder Singh Lovely returns as president of Delhi Congress

Arvinder Singh Lovely was appointed the new president of the Delhi unit of the Congress on Thursday, an apparent move to revive the party’s fortunes in the national capital, where it has not been able to win even a single Assembly election or a seat in the Lok Sabha for a decade now.

Mr. Lovely will replace Anil Kumar, who has been leading the party in Delhi since March 2020.

A four-term MLA from the Gandhi Nagar constituency, Mr. Lovely was the Urban Development and Education Minister between 2003 and 2013 in the Sheila Dikshit government and held a number of other portfolios like Transport, Tourism and Revenue as well. Mr. Lovely left the Congress for a year in 2017 to join the BJP and rejoined in 2018. He had held the post of the Delhi Congress chief between 2013 and 2015.

Congress general secretary K.C. Venugopal in a release said Mr. Lovely has been appointed by party president Mallikarjun Kharge with immediate effect.