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Has Ajay Maken resigned from Congress? Party denies rumour, says he is unwell

The Congress tried to scuttle rumours that the party’s Delhi president Ajay Maken is going to quit from his post. Senior party leader and Delhi in-charge P Chacko said that Maken has not yet quit the party, but that he has been keeping unwell.  

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The Congress tried to scuttle rumours that the party’s Delhi president Ajay Maken is going to quit from his post. Senior party leader and Delhi in-charge P Chacko said that Maken has not yet quit the party, but that he has been keeping unwell.  

“The reports of his resignation are untrue. He has told the party president and to me that his health is not well, and that he will be abroad for treatment for a while. Since he will not be able to devote time fully owing to his ill-health, he told us that he will be away. A decision will be taken soon,” said Chacko. Maken had been suffering from failing health in the last few days, and he had been to Kerala last month to treat acute back pain. 

Reports that Maken is likely to quit has been making the rounds, with a Maken aide claiming that he had indeed sent in his resignation letter to Gandhi last month, which has not been accepted as yet. 

Sources within the party said that, the party is also considering Sandeep Dixit or former state party president Arvinder Singh Lovely as the president. Dixit, the son of former CM Sheila Dixit, has been not too popular with the Congress high command because of his “rebellious nature and irreverent attitude”, as per his own admission. Lovely was replaced by Maken as party president, who was picked by Rahul Gandhi when he was the vice-president. 

However, his resignation can also be seen as his disapproval of a pre-poll alliance with the Aam Aadmi Party for the seven seats in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, the Congress’s chief rival in Delhi. Sources in the Congress said that while senior leaders in the party are keen with a pre-poll alliance to keep the BJP at bay, Maken is not in favour of it. The presence of the AAP’s Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh at the Bharat Bandh recently alongside Rahul Gandhi has also not gone down well. 

With the Congress failing to win a single seat in the state assembly in 2015, the party faces tough competition from the incumbent AAP government as well as the BJP. 

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