SWITCHING SIDES

Former Delhi Congress chief Arvinder Singh Lovely rejoins party

Lovely quit the Congress party to join the BJP in April 2017

Arvinder Singh Lovely rejoins Congress Arvinder Singh Lovely (centre) with Delhi Congress chief Ajay Maken (left) and AICC Delhi unit in-charge P.C. Chacko | ANI

Former Delhi Congress chief Arvinder Singh Lovely today rejoined the party months after he quit to join the Bharatiya Janata Party.

Lovely, who was a former minister in the Sheila Dikshit-led government, met party chief Rahul Gandhi at his residence along with Delhi Congress chief Ajay Maken earlier.

He was welcomed back into the party by AICC in-charge of Delhi unit P.C. Chacko along with Maken.

Lovely had joined the BJP in April, 2017. Within a year, he switched back to the Congress.

Senior Congress leader and former Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit expressed happiness over Lovely's return to the party.

Since being elected in the Delhi Legislative Assembly in 1998, Lovely has never lost an election.

He was re-elected for the fourth time into the assembly in 2013 from Gandhi Nagar constituency.

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