New Delhi: The chorus for Rahul Gandhi playing a greater role in Congress party on Monday grew louder with Digvijay Singh demanding that he be given "decisive" responsibility and a senior leader making a strong pitch for projecting him as PM candidate in the next polls. "Finally the time has come for him to assume a larger role...He had been confining himself to Youth Congress and the student wing of...
03:23 AM, Jul 17, 2012
New Delhi: Congress General Secretary Digvijaya Singh on Sunday expressed readiness to contest the next Lok Sabha elections saying his vow to stay away from electoral politics for ten years comes to an end in November next year. "I will offer myself for contest in elections in 2014 if the party wants me," Singh, a former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister, told reporters. In reply to a question, Singh said he...
01:21 AM, Jul 17, 2012
New Delhi: Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on Sunday expressed confidence that party General Secretary Rahul Gandhi will play a "much more proactive role" in the organisation after the Presidential and Vice Presidential polls. "I am absolutely sure that Rahul will play a much more proactive role in mainstream of Congress Party. Let the Presidential and Vice Presidential polls get over," Singh told a news channel. "Wait for September 2012 and...
03:34 AM, Jul 16, 2012
New Delhi: Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on Sunday expressed confidence that party General Secretary Rahul Gandhi will play a "much more proactive role" in the organisation after the Presidential and Vice Presidential polls. "I am absolutely sure that Rahul will play a much more proactive role in mainstream of Congress Party. Let the Presidential and Vice Presidential polls get over," Singh said to a national news channel. "Wait for September...
06:58 PM, Jul 15, 2012
Guna: Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh, who was recently snubbed by the party for his remarks against Mamata Banerjee, on Monday said he never claimed to be the party spokesperson and statements given by him so far were his "personal" views. "I never claimed to be a spokesman of the party (Congress) and whatever statements I used to give on various issues were based on my personal opinion," he said....
03:01 AM, Jun 26, 2012
Jaipur: Digvijaya Singh, who was recently snubbed by Congress for his remarks against Mamata Banerjee, on Sunday asked the West Bengal Chief Minister to back UPA's Presidential nominee Pranab Mukherjee as there was no nominee of her choice in the fray. "Since there is no candidate of Mamata's choice, she should now openly support Pranab Mukherjee for the post of president as an ally in the UPA government," Digvijaya said...
12:39 AM, Jun 25, 2012
New Delhi: A day after he was snubbed by the party high command for criticising Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee, veteran Congress leader Digvijaya Singh maintained that he had not "crossed any boundaries" of party line. "Which boundaries have I crossed and on which issues?" he asked with regard to an AICC statement on Monday that he was not authorised to speak on behalf of the party. The Congress, which...
05:27 PM, Jun 19, 2012
New Delhi: Congress General Secretary Digvijaya Singh has been pulled up by the party for criticising Trinamool Congress supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday. Digvijaya had criticised Mamata in an interview to Karan Thapar on Devils Advocate, saying there is a limit to which the Congress could take Mamatas tantrums. Sources said that Congress told Digvijaya that he is not officially authorised to speak on such...
05:02 PM, Jun 18, 2012
Congress General Secretary Digvijaya Singh says the time has come when the party won't bend over backwards to retain Mamata Banerjee as an ally. ...
10:08 PM, Jun 16, 2012
APJ Abdul Kalam is the real choice of Mamata Banerjee and Mulayam Singh Yadav, sources told CNN-IBN. ...
09:30 AM, Jun 14, 2012
New Delhi: A stunned Congress on Wednesday night said it was for a consensus on the Presidential candidate and indicated that it will reach out to more parties to muster the required numbers. Party General Secretary Digvijaya Singh said that "our effort is for consensus". "Mamataji is UPA's partner. We are discussing with everyone and after a consensus, we will decided on a name." Party sources said that Trinamool Congress...
10:29 PM, Jun 13, 2012
Ahmedabad: After sympathising with Sanjay Joshi following his "forced" exit from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh has likened Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi to demon king Ravana, asking him to shun vanity. "If you see Ravana, he had also a good track record of development, he had made (Sri) Lanka of gold. But what end he met with lot of pride and ego everybody knows,"...
03:58 PM, Jun 13, 2012
Bhopal: Yoga guru Ramdev may be occupying more space in media now but such people do not last long in public life, Congress General Secretary Digvijaya Singh said on Saturday. "Ramdev may be occupying more space in media now but I do not visualise him making an impact on our society for long. Such people do not last long in public life," Singh said. He pointed out that the Enforcement...
02:01 AM, Jun 10, 2012
Indore: Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh has charged the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Madhya Pradesh government with having links with the mining mafia. The relationship between Shivam construction company and Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan should be probed, Digvijaya told reporters on Thursday night at the airport in Indore before leaving for Maheshwar. "The Madhya Pradesh government may say anything but everyone knows that a lot of illegal mining activity...
05:30 PM, Jun 08, 2012
Maheshwar: Congress General Secretary Digvijaya Singh on Friday demanded an inquiry into the assets acquired by BJP President Nitin Gadkari in the last 15 years. "I am ready for an inquiry into my assets and want that those acquired by Gadkari should also be probed," Digvijaya said at a campaign rally for Devendra Sadho, the Congress candidate for the June 12 Assembly by-election in Maheshwar. He further alleged that the...
05:01 PM, Jun 08, 2012
New Delhi: A day after the Congress appeared going soft on Baba Ramdev, party general secretary Digvijaya Singh on Thursday hit out at the yoga guru asking him to first declare how much black money he possesses before launching a campaign to bring back ill-gotten wealth stashed abroad. "Everything of whatever I had said about Ramdev and Anna Hazare in past has come out to be true. There is a...
06:02 PM, Jun 07, 2012
New Delhi: Congress General Secretary Digvijaya Singh on Thursday made a strong pitch for OBC status to the Jat community ahead of the June 12 by-election in the Jat-dominated Mant assembly segment of Uttar Pradesh where ally Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD)'s prestige is at stake. "Congress party is in favour of the inclusion of the Jat community of Uttar Pradesh in the central list of OBCs. I and the RLD...
05:40 PM, Jun 07, 2012
Kannauj: Dimple Yadav, wife of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, on Tuesday kicked off her campaign for the Lok Sabha by-elections from Kannauj, a seat vacated by her husband after the state assembly elections. She, along with the state Chief Minister, went to Kannauj to file her nomination and addressed a huge public rally. Addressing the rally, while Dimple assured the people that she would leave no stone unturned...
10:21 PM, Jun 05, 2012
Kannauj: In a move that hints at the changing political equations and new alliances, the Congress has decided not to field a candidate against Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav's wife Dimple in the Kannuaj by-election. Notably, the same party had pitched Raj Babbar last time to defeat Yadav by a huge margin. As Dimple Yadav kicked off her campaign for the Kannauj lok sabaha seat, which was vacated by...
09:15 PM, Jun 05, 2012
Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh has said that there is no question of a pre-poll alliance in 2014 in Uttar Pradesh. ...
08:07 PM, Jun 05, 2012
