Bhopal: Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh, on Saturday said that he would prefer contesting from the Rajgarh constituency but he is ready to contest from anywhere decided by the party for the upcoming 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
Senior Congress Leader was speaking in the context of the Congress leadership's announcement that Singh would contest from the Bhopal constituency, a BJP bastion for the past three decades. He told ANI, “My Rajya Sabha term is till 2020 but even then if the party wants me to contest the Lok Sabha elections, my first preference will be the Rajgarh parliamentary seat. However, I have told them that I will contest from wherever the party asks me.”
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Congress leader added that Rajgarh would be his natural priority as it’s his home but said that he would be ready to contest from any seat that the party leadership and the Congress president decides.
Madhya Pradesh CM Kamal Nath had earlier said that if Singh wants to contest the Lok Sabha polls, he should choose the “toughest seat” in the state. CM has said “I have requested Digvijaya Singh that if he wants to contest Lok Sabha polls, then he should do so from the toughest seat. There are two or three or four seats from where we have not won elections since the last 30-35 years.”
