Digvijaya Singh Biodata

Position Held

He was re elected as President of MP Congress Committee in 1992

He was nominated as President of Madhya Pradesh Congress Committee by Rajeev Gandhi in 1985 and remained till 1988

In 1984 he was elected to the Indian Parliament from Rajgarh Parliament Seat. He was re elected to Parliament for a second term in 1991

He was re elected to MP Assembly in 1980

He was first elected to MP Assembly in 1977 as a Congress candidate from Raghogarh in Guna District

President of the Raghogarh Municipal Council in 1969

Political career

Digvijaya Singh was president of the Raghogarh Nagar palika between 1969 and 1971. An offer came in 1970 from 'Vijayaraje Scindia' for him to join the Jana Sangh was not taken up and he subsequently joined the Congress party. He became a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) as the party's representative for the 'Raghogarh Vidhan Sabha' constituency of the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly in the 1977 elections.

Digvijaya Singh was president of the Madhya Pradesh Congress Committee between 1985 and 1988, having been nominated by 'Rajiv Gandhi', and was again elected to the presidency in 1992. He had been elected as a member of the 8th Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Parliament of India, in the Indian general election of 1984, representing the Rajgarh Lok Sabha constituency. He was the first Congress politician to win the constituency, which had been created in 1977.

As A Chief Minister

In the year 1993, he resigned from the Lok Sabha because he had been appointed Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh. His brother, Lakshman Singh, had been elected in 1993 as a Congress MLA in Madhya Pradesh from the same Raghogarh assembly constituency that Digivijaya had previously held. Lakshman resigned the seat in favour of Digvijaya, who needed to be elected to the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly in order to fulfil his role as Chief Minister. Chhattisgarh gained administrative independence from Madhya Pradesh in 2001 under the terms of the Madhya Pradesh Reorganisation Act. Singh was directed by 'Sonia Gandhi' to ensure the selection of 'Ajit Jogi' as the Chief Minister for the new state and this Singh did, although Jogi had been critical of his style of politics and Singh had personally preferred not to see him installed to that office.

Digvijaya Singh won the Raghogarh constituency again in 2003 but his party overall was heavily defeated by the BJP, as it also was in Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh. The defeat in Madhya Pradesh has been attributed in large part to deadlocks in the pursuit of development that had arisen as the Panchayati Raj and central government squabbled about the extent of their respective powers, and to frequent electrical power cuts.