Madhya Pradesh election 2023: Congress changed the Plan! Digvijay Singh’s strategy?

Madhya Pradesh election 2023: In the month of August, the Madhya Pradesh Congress was the first to announce the candidates for the seats on which it is continuously losing the assembly elections. But now Congress has suddenly changed its plan. The news is coming quoting the sources that now Congress will not release its candidates for the 66 seats it has lost. Congress party is facing the fear of the defection of its candidates. There is also a fear of breaking the candidate. Apart from this, those who will not get a ticket can also show a rebellious tone. How much success will be achieved in Digvijay Singh’s strategy?

Digvijay Singh visited 66 seats in Madhya Pradesh. These are the seats where Congress has been losing elections continuously for the last two decades. A plan was prepared by the Congress to tour the weak seats and then, keeping in view the caste, that leader who has a hold among the public should be given a ticket before the election dates are announced. But Congress has changed its plan.

How much success will be achieved in Diggy’s strategy?

Kamal Nath had instructed Digvijay Singh to visit the seats where the Congress was losing for a long time. These are 66 seats in the entire state, that Digvijay Singh visited. During this, Digvijay Singh took a meeting of Mandalam and Sector to strengthen the organization and encouraged the workers. Along with this, Digvijay Singh also probed the mind of the workers about the candidate during the tour. At the same time, workers and ticket claimants were also administered oaths at many places for not working against the party’s candidate.

These are tough seats for Congress

In these, Rahli, Datia, Balaghat, Rewa, Sidhi, Narayawali, Bhojpur, Sagar, Harsud, Sohagpur, Dhar, Indore two, Indore four, Indore five, Mandsaur, Mhow, Guna, Shivpuri, Devsar, Dhauhani, Jaisinghnagar, Jaitpur, Bandhavgarh, Manpur, Mudwara, Jabalpur Cantt, Panagar, Sihora, Paraswara, Balaghat, Seoni, Amla, Timarni, Seoni Malwa, Hoshangabad, Sohagpur, Pipariya, Bhojpur, Kurwai, Shamshabad, Berasia, Govindpura, Budhni, Ashta, Sehore, Sarangpur, Susner, Shujalpur, Dewas, Khategaon, Bagli, Khandwa, Pandhana, Burhanpur, Dhar, Ujjain North, Ujjain South, Ratlam City, Malhargarh, Neemuch, and Javad seats are prominent.

Five-point Program of Congress

1. Local issues- The party will prepare its manifesto after identifying local issues.
2. Displeasure against the present MLA- At the party’s local level, creating an atmosphere in the public by evaluating the displeasure against the BJP MLA.
3. Caste Equation- The party is also looking at what is the caste equation on the lost seats. Accordingly, priority will be given to the candidate selection.
4. Publicity of attractive promises- Congress party is focusing on the publicity of the schemes of its one-and-a-half-year tenure. Along with this, new schemes announced by Kamal Nath like the Nari Samman Yojana of Rs 1500, scheme to give gas cylinders for Rs 500 And efforts are being made to take the scheme of waiving electricity bills up to 100 units to the masses.
5. People’s movement- The party has decided to create a continuous mass movement on all anti-incumbency issues including corruption, inflation, and unemployment. Along with the participation of local organizations, national and state-level leaders will also participate in this.

Who is Digvijaya Singh?

Digvijaya Singh is a frontline politician in India. He is a Member of Parliament – Rajya Sabha and a Permanent Invitee to the Congress Working Committee.

Ex-General Secretary, Indian National Congress, the lead partner in the United Progressive Alliance. This alliance governed the country for a period of 10 years from May 2004 to May 2014.

He was a part of the six-member committee that had been appointed under the chairmanship of Congress- then Vice-President Shri Rahul Gandhi to coordinate the preparations for the General Elections in 2014.

He also serves on most of the party’s committees that are responsible for taking impact-making political decisions.

During 2004 – 2018, as General Secretary, he handled the party work for the states of Odissa, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Assam, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, and Goa.

He was also given the responsibility of managing campaigns in the Assembly Elections of Maharashtra, Karnataka, Gujarat, and Rajasthan.

He served as the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh for ten years from 1993- 2003.

Elected first in December 1993, as the leader of the Congress Legislature Party, he successfully steered the Party to victory in 1998 winning a popular mandate for a second five-year term.

A reformist, progressive, and people-oriented popular Administrator, Digvijaya Singh believes that in a Democracy, the People are not a problem, but they are a part of the Solutions.

A firm believer in Mahatma Gandhi’s talismanic mantra of ” wiping every tear from every eye “, he sincerely believes in Pro-Poor Policies and Affirmative Action for the underprivileged.

He firmly believes in Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru’s Ideals of Secularism and Socialism.

Digvijaya Singh has been pursuing this approach with notable distinction right from the young age of 22 when he first became, the unanimously elected President of the Raghogarh Municipal Council in 1969.

He was first elected to MP Assembly in 1977 as a Congress candidate from Raghogarh in Guna District from where his father Shri Balbhadra Singh was also elected in 1952 first General Elections in India.

He was re-elected to MP Assembly in 1980 and became a Minister in Arjun Singh’s Cabinet handling Portfolios of Agriculture, Animal Husbandry Fisheries Irrigation, and Command Area Development

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

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

He was born on 28th February 1947 and did his Schooling at Daly College Indore a well-known Public School.

He did his B Tech (Mechanical ) from SGSTI in Indore.

He represented his School in Hockey Cricket and Football and Indore University in Cricket Hockey Tennis and Squash.

He played for MP School and Central Zone Cricket Team

He played Squash at the National Level and was seeded Nationally at Junior Level.