Congress Leader Digvijaya Singh Will Not Contest Lok Sabha Elections 2024
New Delhi: The State Assembly Elections 2023 were held in five states and wrapped up in November last year. The new year began with the Ram Mandir Pran Pratishtha on January 22 and will be followed by the Interim Budget 2024 on February 1, 2024. After the Budget will come the Lok Sabha Elections 2024 for which, the different political parties have started preparing and have also kickstarted various programmes as part of their respective election campaigns. Ahead of the General Elections 2024, veteran Congress leader from Madhya Pradesh, Digvijaya Singh has ruled out contesting the upcoming elections. Know more about this..
Digvijaya Singh To NOT Contest Lok Sabha Elections 2024
As mentioned earlier, Congress veteran from Madhya Pradesh, Digvijaya Singh, has ruled out contesting the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. “The question of contesting the elections does not arise because I am a member of Rajya Sabha and still have over two years (of the Rajya Sabha tenure) left,” Mr Singh told reporters in Khilchipur town in Rajgarh district on Saturday.
Digvijaya Singh In Lok Sabha Elections
Notably, Mr Singh had contested from Bhopal Lok Sabha seat in 2019 but lost to BJP’s Pragya Singh Thakur by a margin of 3.65 lakh votes. Rajgarh Lok Sabha seat is the home turf of Mr Singh who hails from the Raghogarh assembly segment (Guna district) which falls under the Rajgarh parliamentary constituency. Mr Singh had represented Rajgarh Lok Sabha seat in 1984 and 1991.
He said the Congress party will decide the candidate for Rajgarh Lok Sabha constituency. Of the total 29 Lok Sabha seats in Madhya Pradesh, the BJP holds 28 and the Congress one. In the assembly elections held last year in MP, the Congress recorded a worst performance under Singh and another veteran Kamal Nath.
(Inputs from PTI)