<span style="color: #222222;">Senior Congress leader Ajay Maken on Friday resigned as the party's Delhi unit chief. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">In a tweet, Mr Maken thanked people, media and party leader Rahul Gandhi for the support to him. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">He said, after the 2015 Delhi assembly elections, as party's Delhi unit president he received a lot of love and support from party workers, media and Mr Gandhi. He said, it was not easy in these difficult times. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">54-year-old Maken had taken over as the Congress's Delhi unit chief four years ago, after the party lost the 2015 assembly elections. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Maken's resignation assumes significance amid speculations of a possible alliance between the Congress and the AAP in Delhi for 2019. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">He was strongly opposing any alliance with the AAP in the national capital.</span><br />''