Congress’ Digvijaya Singh Trailing In His Stronghold Rajgarh By 42,981 Votes; BJP Leads (image-Facebook/Digvijaya Singh)

Former Madhya Pradesh chief minister and Congress leader Digvijaya Singh is trailing in what is referred to as Singh’s stronghold by a margin of 42,981 votes. The Rajgarh Lok Sabha constituency is currently witnessing BJP’s two-time MLA Rodmal Nagar in lead with 2,82,580 votes so far.

According to reports, Singh has managed to win 2,39,599 votes as of yet. The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) candidate, Dr. Rajendra Suryavanshi, has received a mere 4,964 votes.

Singh is expecting to make a return to Rajgarh after a hiatus of 33 years. Singh has deep ties with the parliamentary seat. All the way back in 1969, Singh served as the president of the Raghogarh Nagar Palika. Moving up the ranks, Singh was elected as the MLA of Raghogarh Vidhan Sabha in 1977, a seat previously held by his father, Balbhadra Singh, as an independent candidate in 1951. Notably, his father was the Raja of Raghogarh, which is now known as Guna.

He continued to be the MLA for the assembly segment in 1980 and 1984. In the general elections of 1984, Singh entered national politics and made history by being the first Congress candidate to win the Rajgarh Lok Sabha seat. After a loss in 1989, he reclaimed the seat in 1991.

The OBC candidate, Rodmal Nagar, who breached the grand old party’s stronghold over the seat in 2014, hails from the Kirar community, which has a significant influence in the region. Nagar defeated Congress’ Mona Sustani by a huge margin of 4 lakhs in 2019. However, Sustani, who was Singh’s choice, quit Congress and shook hands with the BJP ahead of the elections.

The Rajgarh Lok Sabha constituency went to polls in the third phase held on May 7.