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MP Polls : Digvijaya Singh Sidelined In Madhya Pradesh To Hide Failure: PM Modi

Election in Madhya Pradesh: Digvijaya Singh, who was Madhya Pradesh chief minister from 1993-98, has said that “his party loses votes if he campaigns.”

 

 

In an apparent reference to Congress leader Digvijaya Singh, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that one of the senior Congress leaders is not being allowed to campaign for the upcoming assembly elections in the state as the party fears that people will recall the failure of their tenure if Mr Singh campaigns.

Digvijaya Singh, who was Madhya Pradesh chief minister from 1993-98, has said that “his party loses votes if he campaigns.”

Addressing a rally here on Sunday, the Prime Minister said, “One of the senior Congress leaders is not being allowed to campaign during these elections. The reason is that the Congress fears that if he campaigns, the party will lose as people will recall what the fate of Madhya Pradesh was during the time they were in power.”

The Prime Minister also accused the Congress of playing divisive politics and said, “Congress neither has any policy, intention, nor a leader… its leader is confused. Let the naamdar (apparently Congress chief Rahul Gandhi) write down on a piece of paper how many zeroes are there in Rs. 23,000 crore. He will get confused.”

He further asserted that these elections are not about who would win or who won’t win but about rejecting the “negative forces who have always focused on the ‘divide and rule’ approach.”

Talking about the development work in Indore city, the Prime Minister announced that as part of the Smart City project, Rs. 23,000 crore will be spent on development of seven cities in poll-bound Madhya Pradesh including Indore over five years. He added, “In last two years, the foreign tourists’ influx has increased.”

Madhya Pradesh will go to polls on November 28 to elect 230 members of the legislative assembly. The results will be declared on December 11.

 

 

 

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MP election 2018: In Rahul Gandhi’s temple run, no place for Digvijaya Singh

Congress president Rahul Gandhi will visit all major temples in Madhya Pradesh as part of his election campaign as the party believes more than half-dozen prominent temples have influence over voters in nearly half the seats in the state.

State party president Kamal Nath and the campaign committee chief Jyotiraditya Scindia are accompanying Gandhi on all these temple visits. Former Congress chief minister Digvijaya Singh, now the party’s coordination committee chief, who has raised issues such as Hindu terrorism, has however been kept out of such engagements of Gandhi.

The Congress president has already been to three such temples – the Kamtanath temple in Chitrakoot last month and the Pitambara Peeth in Datia and Ankaleshwar temple in Gwalior on Monday. He also did a Narmada Aarti at Gwari Ghat in Jabalpur earlier this month. Gandhi’s next stops later this month, during his visit to the all-important Malwa region, are expected to be the two jyotirlingas in the state – the Mahakaleshwar temple in Ujjain and Omkareshwar Peeth in the Omkareshwar district. A party functionary said a plan was also in the works for Gandhi to visit the Ram Raja Temple and Laxmi Narayan Temple in Orchha in Niwari district at a later date.

“Rahul Gandhi also went to Moti Masjid and a gurudwara in Gwalior during his present trip,” a Congress functionary said, stressing on the “secular nature” of his trips. Gandhi also put out a picture on Instagram of his recent visits to Ankaleshwar temple, Moti Masjid and a gurudwara with the message, “The idea of India begins with acceptance that India thrives on diversity. The idea of India is in all of us. The idea that we are one people and will always be.”

Gandhi shared a picture in which he is seen wearing a skull cap at the Moti Masjid. The Congress functionary also said it was part of the Gandhi family’s tradition to visit the temples in Madhya Pradesh. “Indira Gandhi had visited the Pitambara Peeth in Datia thrice in her life and Rajiv Gandhi had visited once,” the leader said.
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