Bhopal: Senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh on Monday responded to the challenge thrown at him by chief minister Kamal Nath to seek elections from the toughest seat in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, saying, “I am ready to contest wherever my leader Rahul Gandhiji wants me to.”
Mr Singh took to Twitter to reply to Mr Nath’s ‘appeal’ to choose the toughest seat if he desired to contest the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections.
“Thank you Kamal Nath ji for inviting me to contest from weak seats of Congress. I am grateful to you for considering me capable (of this)”, he tweeted.
Mr Singh added that accepting challenges was his habit.
“With the blessings of people of Raghogharh, I have won in 1977 defying a Janata Dal wave. From any place leader Rahul Gandhiji asks me, I am ready to contest from”, he said.
Incidentally, Mr Singh’s reply came a day after AICC general secretary Jyotiraditya Scindia, considered his arch rival in Congress in Madhya Pradesh, echoed Mr Nath’s view.
Talking to reporters in Chhindwara in MP on Saturday, Mr Nath had said there were 2-3-4 seats in MP where Congress had not won in last 30 years and he wanted Mr Singh to contest from the toughest seat. Sources said the party leadership wanted Mr Singh to choose either Bhopal or Indore seat to contest from in the upcoming parliamentary elections.
