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Exclusive Interview with Arvinder Singh Lovely

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New Delhi, 19 October 2023

Lovely to attend a meeting called by Sikhs at Tilak Nagar

Amitabh Srivastava 

The crowds seem to have returned to Rajiv Bhavan at the ITO in Delhi, housing the Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee after the appointment of Arvinder Singh Lovely, as its new President. Many others are rejoining party as if it was Ghar Wapsi.
A veteran of many a pitched battle with the BJP in Delhi where Lovely has been a minister for 10 years in the Shiela Dikshit government he is the most prominent Sikh face of the party in Delhi for decades.
There was a time in between when Lovely had left the party and joined the BJP by none other than the Amit Shah who was the BJP President.
But he soon returned to the Grand Old Party wiser.
At a pre meet in February 2018 he confessed," I was ideologically misfit in BJP. It didn't take long to realise that. Then I told myself, I should do as much as I can for my parent party."
That was 5 years back.
He got his chance in 2023 and his new appointment seems perfectly timed.
This is a time when for lack of any issue for polarising voters the aggressive BJP under Modi is out to prove that every Muslim is a Jihadi and every Sikh is a Khalistani (his attacks on Trudeau Shia that).The first they have already achieved.Remember the viral video of their Honourable Lok Sabha MP Ramesh Bidhuri calling all kind of names to the BSP MP Danish Ali in a Lok Sabha debate.
Not only has the BJP condoned his conduct it has rewarded Bidhuri with a crucial position in poll bound Rajasthan.
And as Alka Lamba, CWC member and Congress spokesperson told me, " The BJP and its supported media had started labelling the farmer agitation in Delhi as being supported by Khalistanis. The party has not apologised for this so far which means it wants to draw political mileage from this polarisation."
She welcomes the appointment of Lovely at this moment and reveals that Lovely has been invited to address a meeting by the Sikhs in Tilak Nagar on October 22, which means that the people of Delhi don't take the BJP seriously.
In Delhi, the Congress has a tough fight on its hands with both the BJP and the Aam Aadmi Party which had taken away its crucial vote-bank. Officially the Aap is with I.N.D.I.A but...
Sitting in his office at the Rajiv Bhavan at ITO, sandwiched for time between a press conference where two former Councellors from the AAP Prithvi Singh Rathore and Rajiv Sharma joined the party, and a meeting with team members, Arvinder Lovely found time for an exclusive interview with Media Map.
Asked about his priorities, he says," We have to bring out and encourage leaders who have support at the grass-root level to revive the party in Delhi.Which means leaders who like a cushy life style will have to wait.I am starting appointment of office bearers from down onwards which means first will be the Mandal, then Block, then District and last will be office-bearers at the Head Quarters."
And what precisely is his mandate from the High Command?
"I have been asked to strengthen and revive the party at every level. Already prominent personalities and leaders from other parties have started joining the DPCC and this will encourage  people to take us more seriously," he hopes.
In his recent statements he has been attacking both the Centre and the Delhi Government openly.
For instance, at one meeting in Bawana he had blamed the BJP and Delhi Government to for turning inhabitants of 365 villages into refugees by asking them to pay house tax. He had also said that the DPCC would launch an agitation against the Centre and Delhi Government against the misuse of 45,857 houses under the Rajiv Ratn Avas Yojna.
"Yes we are fighting for people's issues what is the problem?" he asks.
But will attacking the AAP not disturb the I.N.D.I.A group made after so many deliberations?
"Look, my mandate is to strengthen the Congress in all the seven Lok Sabha constituencies. I am not getting into controversial issues like who gets how many seats in Delhi. That is not within my jurisdiction. It is for the High Command to take a call. But till the time the Lok Sabha elections are announced I cannot be sitting idle. I have to strengthen the party in all the seven constituencies  and that is my only mandate which I am working at," he asserts.

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