30 Facts About Digvijaya Singh

Digvijaya Singh was born on 28 February 1947 and is an Indian politician and a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha.

Digvijaya Singh is Ex-General Secretary of the Indian National Congress party's All India Congress Committee.

Digvijaya Singh was born in Indore in the erstwhile princely state of Holkar of British India, on 28 February 1947.

Since 1969, he was married to Asha Digvijaya Singh, who died in 2013, and with whom he has four daughters and a son Jaivardhan Digvijaya Singh, who was member of Madhya Pradesh's 14th Vidhan Sabha serving as the Cabinet Minister of Urban Development and Housing.

Digvijaya Singh was president of the Raghogarh Nagar palika between 1969 and 1971.

Digvijaya Singh became a Member of the Legislative Assembly 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 re-elected in 1992.

Digvijaya Singh 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.

Digvijaya Singh was the first Congress politician to win the constituency, which had been created in 1977.

Digvijaya Singh regained it in 1991, becoming a member of the 10th Lok Sabha.

Lakshman resigned from the seat in favour of Digvijaya Singh, who needed to be elected to the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly in order to fulfill his role as Chief Minister.

Digvijaya Singh instead won the by-election from Chachoura constituency, which was vacated by the Former MLA Shivnarayan Meena that time for the purpose.

Subsequently, Digvijaya Singh met with Shukla in order to allay concerns.

Digvijaya Singh won the Raghogarh constituency again in 2003 but his party overall was heavily defeated by the BJP, as it was in Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh.

Digvijaya Singh shifted his attention to working for Congress from the centre, becoming a general secretary of the AICC and being involved in the party's organisation across several states, including Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.

In 2012, Digvijaya Singh said that there was a need for younger people to be involved in state assemblies and that he had no further interest in contesting state elections.

Digvijaya Singh expressed a willingness to contest the 2014 Lok Sabha elections if Congress wanted him to do so; he said that he would like to see his son as the incumbent of the Raghogarh constituency.

Mool Digvijaya Singh, the incumbent MLA, announced then that he would not be contesting his Raghogarh Assembly seat in the forthcoming elections, paving the way for Jaivardhan to be elected in a form of dynastic succession that is a feature of politics in India.

Digvijaya Singh has been criticised by his opposition for corruption, which he denied.

In June 2015, Digvijaya Singh petitioned the Supreme Court, pleading for a CBI probe into the Vyapam scam.

Digvijaya Singh claimed to have interacted with a whistleblower who had revealed sensitive information to him.

The CBI dismissed the claim in November 2017, raising the possibility that Digvijaya Singh could be prosecuted for fabricating evidence.

Digvijaya Singh was Chief Minister of the state at the time and the People's Union for Civil Liberties blamed him for arresting farmers' leaders.

Digvijaya Singh stated that the Batla House encounter case, which led to the death of two terrorists and one police officer, was fake.

Digvijaya Singh's stand on the Batla House encounter led to criticism from the opposition BJP.

Digvijaya Singh is a terrorist and he deserved the treatment that he got.

Digvijaya Singh has said that the right-wing extremism of the kind he said is perpetrated by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and Students Islamic Movement of India represented a grave threat to national unity.

Digvijaya Singh equated RSS to the Nazis stating that "The RSS, in the garb of its nationalist ideology, is targeting Muslims the same way Nazis targeted Jews in the 1930s".

Digvijaya Singh falsely accused the RSS of being involved in a number of terrorist strikes including the Mumbai terror attacks.

Digvijaya Singh demanded a CBI enquiry into the murder of Sunil Joshi, an RSS activist accused of being involved in the Ajmer Dargah attack, alleging that Joshi was murdered because "he knew too much".