In 2 LS seats in MP, Diggy and Scindia ‘fight for pride’
It is “fight for pride” for Congress veteran Digvijay Singh and Union minister Jyotiraditya Scindia in their respective Lok Sabha constituencies of Rajgarh and Guna in Madhya Pradesh, in this poll.
Rajgarh and Guna are going to polls in the third phasing polling in Madhya Pradesh on May seven. For, they are yet to come to terms with the ignominious defeat they had suffered in their respective constituencies in the last LS polls and a win this time would alone “salvage their pride”.
Mr Scindia is facing Rao Yadvendra Singh Yadav of Congress as his principal rival in Guna. Two-time chief minister Mr Singh, famously known as “Raja of Raghogarh”, had lost to BJP’s Pragya Singh Thakur, a greenhorn in politics then, in Bhopal LS seat in 2019 by a margin of over 3.60 lakh, leaving him stunned.
Mr Singh, in fact, was taken aback when he was declared a candidate for his home turf, Rajgarh, by the Congress.
“At this age, it is beyond my capacity to contest polls. Congress workers will fight the poll for me in every booth,” 77-year-old Mr Singh had said while addressing his first meeting of Congress workers in Rajgarh after he was declared the candidate by the party.
“Since then, he has been campaigning in the nook and corner of the constituency, mostly by holding foot marches, a traditional Congress style of campaigning,” local journalist Arun Srivastav said.
It was no easy task for Mr Singh to reconnect to the people in his home constituency since he last fought the polls in this seat in 1991.
He is now working hard not only to reconnect to his old acquaintances, some of whom have grown too old to recollect the past memory.