2024-04-03 02:32:40
Rajgarh: The RSS has extremely strong roots in the Rajgarh constituency of Madhya Pradesh, but for Digvijay Singh, a scion of the former royal family of Raghogarh, no one was giving the Congress a chance to snatch the seat from Rodmal Nagar, the sitting BJP MP from Raghogarh. This time he himself has come into the field. At present Rodmal Nagar is MP from BJP on Rajgarh seat. In the 2019 elections, she got 65.37% votes, while Congress party’s Mona Sustani got 31.57% votes.
MP Politics: 26 years ago also two former CMs had contested Lok Sabha elections, both were defeated, now Shivraj and Digvijay are fighting.
Citizens are being burdened twice
Nagar had also secured 59.04% votes in 2014, but in the 2024 elections, the Congress party has given ticket to Digvajay Singh. Many people believe that Digvijay Singh himself was not interested in contesting the elections. This has brought a new twist in the Rajgarh elections.
Digvijay’s brother who was MP on BJP ticket
Digvijay Singh’s younger brother Laxman Singh had won the seat on BJP ticket in 2004. In the 2009 elections, Narayan Singh Amlabe of Congress won from this seat. He defeated Laxman Singh. Earlier, Laxman Singh had won four elections from Rajgarh from 1994 to 1999, each time on Congress ticket. By then Digvijay Singh had become the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh and had established his dominance in the state.
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The people of Raghogarh still believe in the king.
Digvijay Singh contested the assembly elections from Raghogarh. Raghogarh seat is still a Congress stronghold, the people here see Digvijay Singh as ‘Raja Saheb’. Before joining state politics, he was also a Lok Sabha member from Rajgarh in 1984 and 1991. On both occasions, he had won the elections against veteran BJP leader Pyarelal Khandelwal. Pyarelal was like the ‘patriarch’ (patron) of the BJP at that time and had the same influence in the party as Kushabhau Thackeray.
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In between the two Lok Sabha elections he won, Digvijay Singh lost the 1989 Lok Sabha election from Khandelwal. Even in the 1991 elections, he won the election by only 470 votes. Singh’s son Jaivardhan Singh won the Raghogarh seat in the 2003 state assembly elections by just over 5,000 votes.