2 more senior Delhi Congress leaders Naseeb Singh and Neeraj Basoya join Arvinder Singh Lovely list

Delhi Congress leadership on Wednesday suffered more revolts and resignations from among its senior leaders against the party central leadership foisting on the party unit an alliance with AAP and imposing Kanhaiya Kumar and Udit Raj as party candidates much against the wishes of many local party leaders and workers. Senior Delhi Congress leaders Naseeb Singh and Neeraj Basoya, both former MLAs, on Wednesday resigned from the party by registering their protest against the alliance with AAP and over the choice of the two party Lok Sabha candidates in Delhi. They timed their revolt a day after AICC named an interim PCC president after state unit chief Arvinder Singh Lovely too resigned over the same issues. There are indications of more such resignations.

They also chose the occasion (and in their letter to party chief Mallikarjun Kharge) to expose the flipside of the high command's management. They pointed out that the leadership's choice of Delhi interim PCC president, Devendra Yadav, with the brief to bat for AAP-Congress alliance in the National Capital, is the same person who, as AICC in-charge of Punjab, is currently overseeing the Punjab Congress unity's anti-AAP stand in the LS poll. While appointing Yadav as PCC interim head, the AICC had also announced that he would continue as in-charge of Punjab PCC -- irrespective of the conflicting briefs of the two assignments and despite the fact that he would require to divide time and focus between the election campaigns of the two state units. Incidentally, both Singh and Basoya were also AICC observers to the two Delhi Lok Sabha constituencies.

"Many of us, including around 30-35 former MLAs, as senior leaders of the Delhi Congress were opposing the alliance with AAP. But, the high command didn't listen to us and got into the alliance. The Congress workers are saying that we can't work for someone (Kejriwal-led AAP) who ran a false propaganda and has finished us (Delhi Congress) off. We can't see what is happening within the party after Sonia Gandhi left the leadership... Kejriwal is running the Delhi Congress Committee from Tihar jail. Kanhaiya Kumar and Udit Raj, who do not belong to Congress' ideology, have become the party candidates and they aren't even putting up (party chief ) Khargeji's posters. Can the Congress stoop so low in greed for power?" said Naseeb Singh.


Basoya said: "I have written in my letter to Khargeji that alliance with AAP is wrong, unrealistic and unnatural. In the name of 'saving Constitution' (a Congress slogan), they destroyed all Congress workers."