Digvijaya Singh accepts CM Kamal Nath's challenge, tweets he will contest seat selected by Rahul Gandhi

BHOPAL: Senior Congress leader and Rajya Sabha MP Digvijaya Singh on Monday accepted chief minister Kamal Nath’s challenge that he should contest Lok Sabha elections from one of the toughest seats in the state which the party has been losing for more than three decades.


Taking to twitter on Monday morning, Digvijaya Singh said, “Thanks to Kamal Nath ji who invited me to contest from seats where the Congress is weak in Madhya Pradesh .

I am grateful to him that he thought me capable of the job.”

In a second tweet, he said, “With the support of the people of Raghogarh, even during the 1977 Janata Party wave, I contested and won. Accepting challenges is my habit. I am ready to contest the Lok Sabha election from the seat my party president Rahul Gandhi wants me to. Narmade Harr.”

On Saturday, while speaking to reporters in Chhindwara , chief minister Kamal Nath had said, “Digvijaya Singh will choose which seat he wants to contest from. I have requested him that he should contest from the toughest seat. There are three or four such seats in the state which the party has not won in the past 30 to 35 years.”