Know Arvinder Singh Lovely, the new Delhi Congress president

New Delhi: Congress president Sonia Gandhi has appointed Arvinder Singh Lovely as the new president of the Delhi unit of the party.Lovely, 46, was a minister in Sheila Dikshit government and he has managed to save his assembly seat despite an anti-Congress wave sweeping Delhi.Arvinder Singh Lovely has once again won from his Gandhi Nagar assembly constituency seat. This is for the fourth time in a row that he has won from this constituency.He defeated his nearest rival BJP's Ramesh Chand Jain by nearly 16,000.The appointment of Lovely as the new Delhi Congress chief was announced in the wake of the resignation of J P Agrawal who decided to put in his papers owing the moral responsibility of the Congress party's worse defeat in Delhi.Born on 11 Dec 1968 to Balvinder Singh, Lovely pursued his graduation in Political Science from SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi. He was also elected to the Students' Union of the college. He was also elected General Secretary,of Delhi Pradesh Youth Congress in the year 1990.From 1992-96, he worked as General Secretary of the National Student Union of India (NSUI).He became the youngest member of Delhi assembly when he was elected to the state legislature for the first time from Gandhi Nagar constituency.He has won from this seat four times in a row now.He was made a minister in Delhi government in 2003. Lovely had handled a number of key portfolios like Transport, Education and Revenue.