Achi news desk-
The Congress is yet to officially announce Digvijaya’s candidature for the parliamentary elections, but has claimed that the party has given a “signal” that he may be removed from the Rajgarh seat, which he has represented twice.
In the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, BJP’s Pragya Singh Thakur defeated Digvijaya by 3,64,822 votes from the Bhopal constituency, with her party winning in 28 of the 29 constituencies in the state and the Congress getting one.
Digvijaya contested the last Lok Sabha polls from Rajgarh in 1991 before becoming CM in 1993. The seat was held by his brother Laxman Singh from 1994 (bypoll) to 2004.
Digvijaya’s close aide and Congress leader Narayan Singh Amlabe defeated Laxman Singh, who joined the BJP in 2003, in 2009. Later, Laxman Singh returned to the Congress.
BJP’s Rodmal Nagar defeated Amlabe in Rajgarh in 2014 and the party has re-nominated him this time.
Digvijaya and his son Jaivardhan Singh, who represents the Raghogarh Assembly seat, met party workers in Rajgarh constituency to anticipate the nomination of the senior Congress leader.
Digvijaya’s father, Balbhadra Singh, was the king of Raghogarh, in the state of Gwalior at the time. He was elected from there in the 1951 MP assembly elections as an Independent candidate.
