Speaking to reporters in Jhabua Digvijaya Singh categorically ruled-out contesting the assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh scheduled for November this year. Instead, he wants to contest the Lok Sabha elections in 2014. "If the party wants me to, I will contest the Lok sabha elections scheduled for next year," Digvijay Singh said.
Digvijaya Singh served as chief minister from December 1993 to December 2003. After the Congress got routed with 38 out of the total 230 seats in 2003, the former chief minister took responsibility for the defeat and announced that he would take "sanyas" from politics for the next ten years. Though he secured a place for himself in 24, Akbar Road and made political statements faster than any other Congress leader, he now claims his "sanyas" is over and he is willing to return in the active electoral fray - but only if he is given a Lok Sabha ticket.
Just one week ago, Digvijaya Singh expressed his desire to contest from the Vidisha Lok Sabha seat represented by BJP leader of opposition, Sushma Swaraj, who won by a whopping margin of more than four lakh votes in 2009 while the Congress candidate Rajkumar Patel gave her an easy win as his nomination papers were rejected. Patel, known to be in the inner circle of the Digvijaya Singh faction had not submitted his nomination papers on time, hence, the rejection.
Vidisha is a BJP bastion and was Atal Behari Vajpayee's seat in 1991. Thereafter, chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan retained the constituency for five terms till be became chief minister of the state. In 2008, Chouhan welcomed Sushma Swaraj to contest from here. It is a puzzle why Digvijaya Singh wants to contest from a constituency which has not elected a Congress candidate over the past 25 years.
On Thursday, Digvijaya Singh claimed that the BJP state government had not fulfilled its manifesto promise to waive the agricultural loans of 50,000 farmers. He also argued that the Chouhan government's recently launched programme of 24-hour quality power supply under the Atal Jyoti Yojana throughout the state for domestic consumers and industry was a hoax. Farmers who have been promised eight hours of power for agricultural usage are still not getting electricity, he quipped.
The AICC general secretary's followers are presently leading the state Congress including tribal leader and former Union minister Kantilal Bhuria as PCC chief and Digvijaya Singh's relative and deceased leader Arjun Singh's son Ajay as the leader of opposition. Digvijaya Singh's brother Lakshman is the state Congress vice-president. But Digvijaya himself refuses to be part of this team.
If given a ticket, this won't be the first time Digvijay Singh would enter Parliament. He was elected Lok sabha MP from Rajgarh twice in 1984 and 1991. He lost the seat in 1989 to BJP's Pyarelal Khandelwal. His brother Lakshman Singh represented Rajgarh for four terms from 1996 to 2004 - three terms for the Congress and once for the BJP. Lakshman Singh was fielded by the BJP again in 2009 but lost as Digvijaya Singh proved his loyalties to the Congress by campaigning for party candidate Narayan Singh Amlabe. Question now remains: Will Digvijay Singh contest from Vidisha as he claims? If so, who is he planning to field from Rajgarh, a seat formerly represented by him and his brother?
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