Asked if he thought the party will be able retain all the seven seats at a time when the BJP is being seen as the favourite and the AAP could repeat its assembly success, Lovely said stoutly: "It is too premature to say, but (AAP leader) Arvind Kejriwal and Narendra Modi (the BJP's prime ministerial candidate) are more of a media creation."
Lovely, who has held several portfolios in the three governments of former chief minister Sheila Dikshit, said that the AAP government - propped up by the Congress party from outside - "blew up the opportunity and ran away from its responsibility".
"Has the AAP government performed better, and how is the BJP doing in the corporations? They will not do anything different if they come to power at the centre," Lovely maintained.
One or two defeats don't make a difference: Arvinder Singh Lovely
New Delhi: In remarks that can only be interpreted to mean that the Congress may already be looking beyond the next election, Delhi party chief Arvinder Singh Lovely has said the endeavour would be to
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