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Who is Arvinder Singh Lovely

One of the most prominent names in the Delhi unit of the Congress party, Arvinder Singh Lovely was the youngest MLA when he was first elected to the Delhi Assembly in 1998 from the Gandhi Nagar seat. He went on to represent this constituency until 2015. Lovely held several important portfolios, such as Urban Development & Revenue ministry, Education, and Transport, in the successive Sheila Dixit-led governments in Delhi.
 
A former president of the Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee, Lovely contested the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from the East Delhi constituency against cricketer-turned politician Gautam Gambhir (the Bharatiya Janata Party, or BJP) and Atishi (the Aam Aadmi Party, or AAP). But he lost to Gambhir by 3, 92,000 votes.
 
Born and raised in Delhi, Lovely did his graduation in Political Science from SGTB Khalsa College of the Delhi University (DU). He was active in student politics during his college. Later, in 1990, he was elected as the general secretary of the Delhi Youth Congress, and then served as the General Secretary of the National Student’s Union of India (NSUI) from 1992 to 1996.
 
Lovely has been associated with the Congress for almost 30 years. In 2017, he briefly broke his association with the party and joined rival BJP in April 2017. But after a few months, he returned to the Congress stating he was an ‘ideological misfit’ in the BJP.
 
In the 2020 Delhi election, the Congress has fielded Arvinder Singh Lovely from his usual Assembly constituency of Gandhi Nagar, where he will be pitted against the BJP’s Naveen Choudhary (Deepu) and the AAP’s sitting MLA Anil Bajpai

Latest Updates on Arvinder Singh Lovely

Former Delhi Congress Chief Arvinder Singh Lovely and others join BJP

Lok Sabha elections 2024: Arvinder Singh Lovely, Naseeb Singh and Neeraj Basoya, in their resignation letters, denounced the Congress's alliance with AAP for the general elections

Updated On: 04 May 2024 | 6:13 PM IST

LS polls: Former Delhi Congress chief Arvinder Singh Lovely joins BJP

Lovely joined the BJP in the presence of Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri, BJP General Secretary Vinod Tawde and Delhi BJP chief Virendra Sachdeva

Updated On: 04 May 2024 | 4:55 PM IST

AAP-Cong alliance credit goes to Lovely, says Sanjay; Cong leader hits back

Lovely said when the INDIA opposition bloc was formed, he was not the Delhi Congress chief and added that Singh is suffering from "trauma" after coming out of jail

Updated On: 29 Apr 2024 | 11:32 PM IST

Delhi Congress chief Arvinder Lovely resigns after party allied with AAP

This comes days after former Delhi minister and AICC member Rajkumar Chauhan resigned from the party following an altercation with Babria

Updated On: 28 Apr 2024 | 12:31 PM IST

Kharge approves formation of committees for Delhi Cong ahead of LS polls

"Arvinder Singh Lovely, who is also the Delhi Congress president will chair the Pradesh election committee," a statement released by Congress read

Updated On: 07 Feb 2024 | 6:54 AM IST

Delhi: BJP launches multi-pronged attack on AAP; Kejriwal holds jansabhas

The Congress, on the other hand, got some start power for its campaign. Actress Nagma canvassed for Congress' Gandhi Nagar candidate Arvinder Singh Lovely

Updated On: 06 Feb 2020 | 8:59 PM IST

Arvinder Singh Lovely who called Sheila Dikshit a 'burden' rejoins Congress

Arvinder Singh Lovely met party chief Rahul Gandhi at his residence

Updated On: 17 Feb 2018 | 1:05 PM IST