Ajay Maken  

This Lok Sabha seat is the most high-profile as it is home to the Parliament, the Supreme Court and the residences of the President and the Prime Minister of India and all the top civil, judicial, military and diplomatic enclaves

People close to Maken say that he had sensed that the 80-year-old former Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit was to be made the Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee chief and hence resigned.

Congress Delhi chief Ajay Maken’s resignation came within a month of Sheila Dikshit expressing her desire to return to politics. Maken also upset the central leadership after he expressed his displeasure over a possible tie-up between the Congress and AAP for the upcoming Lok Sabha poll.

New Delhi: Congress leader PC Chacko, on Tuesday, clarified that the party's Delhi unit president Ajay Maken had not resigned from his position and he had gone for a medical check-up after informing about his health condition to the party president Rahul Gandhi. Chacko termed it as "false news" after reports emerged in the media that Maken had quit and reiterated that he “continues as president”.