Arvinder Singh Lovely of Congress sees a sad loss from Gandhi Nagar

• In the Delhi Assembly Elections, Congress had sent its local familiar heavyweight to war – Arvinder Singh Lovely.
• Singh lost the seat.
• The 52-year old Congress politician, Singh had become Delhi’s youngest MLA in 1998, when he was 30.
• Singh, who also had a ministerial position in the Sheila Dikshit government, held on to his seat from the Gandhi Nagar constituency of Delhi winning three more Assembly elections.

Arvinder Singh Lovely, a Congress heavyweight, was up against Anil Bajpayee of BJP and Naveen Choudhary from AAP in the Delhi Assembly elections 2020.

He lost to Anil Kumar Bajpai of BJP who won the seat by 6079 votes over AAP's Naveen Choudhary. Bajpai had a 42.64% vote share, while Singh had a mere 19% vote share.


The ruling AAP as well as BJP are fighting tooth and nail for Delhi assembly election. But the Indian National Congress is not too far from the fray either. Local heavyweights like Arvinder Singh Lovely are preparing for war.

The 52-year old Congress politician, Singh was Delhi’s youngest MLA in 1998, when he was 30. Since then, Singh held on to his seat from the Gandhi Nagar constituency of Delhi and won three more Assembly elections.

He is once again hoping for a win from Gandhi Nagar.

According to reports, Congress President Sonia Gandhi was pushing the party’s popular leaders including Singh to contest this election. Singh is the election management committee head.

As a young face in Congress, Singh also held a ministerial position under late Sheila Dikshit, the former Delhi CM. He held portfolios like education, urban development and revenue, transport, languages, tourism, gurudwara election, local bodies and gurudwara administration.

He was also the president of the Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee. But his relationship with Congress had many twists and turns.

In 2017, Singh left the party to join the BJP. “I had given 31 years to the party but what did I get in the end? Nothing. I was not even included in the core committee set up for the municipal elections,” he had then told reporters.

Soon after, Singh found his way back to the Congress, citing ideological differences with the BJP.

In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, he fought from the East Delhi constituency and lost to BJP’s celebrity candidate Gautam Gambhir.

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