Devender, Rajesh frontrunners for DPCC top post

FORMER Delhi MLAs Devender Yadav and Rajesh Lilothia are the likely front runners for the post of Congress' city unit chief after Arvinder Singh Lovely resigned from the post citing the alliance with the AAP as one of the reasons, the DPCC sources said on Monday.

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Though the sources said either Yadav or Lilothia is Lovely's successor, others feel Abhishek Dutt can also be considered for the post. Lovely submitted his resignation from the president's post on Saturday to party chief Mallikarjun Kharge. He said the Delhi Congress unit was against the alliance but the party high command went ahead with it.

In his resignation letter, Lovely also said he found himself "handicapped" as all unanimous decisions taken by se nior Delhi unit leaders have been "unilaterally vetoed" by AICC Delhi in-charge Deepak Babaria. Former DPCC chief Anil Chaudhary on Monday urged Kharge to expel Lovely from the party.