Following Arvinder Singh Pretty’s resignation as Delhi Congress Committee president, Bharatiya Janata Get together (BJP) chief Shehzad Poonawalla mentioned the Congress “doesn’t have a mission or imaginative and prescient and is seeped in confusion and contradiction”. “We’ve got seen how this has been enjoying out, particularly in Delhi,” he added, as quoted by ANI.
He mentioned Congress staff have been on the streets of Delhi to protest towards the grant of tickets to “a number of individuals who had nothing to do with Delhi”. Giving the instance of Kanhaiya Kumar, Poonawalla mentioned, the previous JNU Pupil Union chief had abused the armed forces and mentioned the Naxalites have been martyrs.
#WATCH | On Arvinder Singh Pretty’s resignation because the Delhi Congress Committee President, BJP chief Shehzad Poonawalla says, “…The Congress celebration has no mission or imaginative and prescient, it’s only seeped in confusion, division, and contradiction. We’ve got seen how this has been enjoying out,… pic.twitter.com/D3g3gOuS4o
— ANI (@ANI) April 28, 2024
“AAP [Aam Aadmi Party] had fully obliterated the existence of Congress in Delhi, saying they’d put [late former Delhi CM] Sheila Dikshit and [former Congress chief] Sonia Gandhi in jail,” Poonawalla added.
The Congress, he mentioned, had complained about how AAP “was concerned within the liquor rip-off”. “However for political causes they got here collectively, that doesn’t imply the voters will come collectively,” he added.
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“At present the Congress is unable to retain its leaders as a result of its personal leaders are displaying the mirror to Congress for its hypocrisy,” Poonawalla mentioned.
Arvinder Singh Pretty stepped down as Delhi Congress chief over a disagreement with the celebration’s choice to type an alliance with the AAP for the Lok Sabha election. In his resignation letter, he mentioned, “The Delhi Congress unit was towards an alliance with a celebration which was shaped on the only foundation of levelling false, fabricated and malafide corruption prices towards the Congress celebration. Regardless of that, the celebration decided to ally with the AAP in Delhi.”
When AAP chief Saurabh Bharadwaj was requested about Arvinder Singh Pretty quitting as Delhi Congress chief, he mentioned the Congress was an alliance associate however “it’s a celebration matter”. “Congress is our alliance associate and that is the inner matter of the celebration, therefore I consider, it is higher that they [Congress] talk about it.”
#WATCH | Delhi: As Arvinder Singh Pretty resigns as Delhi Congress president, AAP chief and Delhi Minister Saurabh Bharadwaj says, “Congress is our alliance associate and that is the inner matter of the celebration, therefore I consider, it is higher that they (Congress) talk about it.” pic.twitter.com/jrbuWOjEOE
— ANI (@ANI) April 28, 2024
Pretty’s resignation comes days after former Delhi minister and AICC member Rajkumar Chauhan resigned from the celebration following an altercation with the Congress basic secretary in-charge of Delhi, Deepak Babaria, throughout a gathering on Sunday.
In his resignation letter to Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, written on Saturday, Pretty additionally mentioned that each one unanimous selections taken by the senior Delhi unit leaders have been “unilaterally vetoed” by Babaria.