Not favouring any alliance with AAP, DPCC (I) chief Maken resigns citing health reasons

Not proving successful in restructuring and revitalising the Congress party in Delhi despite his best possible earnest efforts, after the party’s shamful debacle in 2015 at the hands of Aam Aadmi Party, the Delhi Congress chief and former union minister Ajay Maken has finally resigned from the state’s presidentship mentioning health reasons, submitting his resignation to the Congress chief Rahul Gandhi Delhi.

After Ajay Maken’s resignation which is most likely to be accepted by the party high command, the position of the country’s main opposition party in Delhi would be pitiable as its Parvatiya Congress chief alongwith several of the office bearers had already joined AAP two months ago and several other leaders allegedly likely to follow suit.

The outgoing Congress chief Ajay Maken was always against having any seat sharing alliance with the Aam Aadmi Party where as the former Delhi CM Shiela Dikshit who ruled the nation’s capital for 15 protracted years and herself lost to Arvind Kejrival from the Gol Market constituency, has always been in favor of seat sharing alliance in Delhi, particularly if the BJP has to be avoided taking over the Delhi’s political reigns.

Shiela Dikshit is of the opinion that if BJP has to be kept at bay in Delhi the Congress AAP allaince in both the parliamentary as well as the Delhi legislative elections is an inevitability. It is believed that she may be the next state president say sources.

It may be recalled that after taking charge from the former president Arvinder Singh Lovely as the DPCC chief Ajay Maken has left no stone unturned to ensure that the defunct Congress party is fully revived and revitalised in Delhi.

He organised workers n state leaders at the grass root levels and improved the party’s performance in the MCD elections. Not a day was left when Ajay Maken has not organised protest demonstrations in various parts of Delhi on vital Delhi issues, workers district n block level conventions and had even courted arrests alongwith party workers to boost their political morale.

But despite all this he could not succeed to revitalise the party in Delhi, the way Congress showed positive results in three states where it formed governments recently.

Moreover, he outrightly opposed any political alliance with AAP in Delhi either in the forthcoming parliamentary elections as well as in the state elections of 2019 where as keeping in view the larger political interest of the Congress in forging the national anti BJP grand alliance for 2019 holding of electoral understanding with AAP seemed to be inevitable at all costs.

Maken has earlier resigned in September citing health reasons when he was abroad for treatment but the Congress chief had asked him to continue with the state leadership then. But this time its for sure that he’ll be replaced by a new incumbent.