{"id":21336,"date":"2019-03-23T17:31:13","date_gmt":"2019-03-23T17:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dinnews.in\/?p=21336"},"modified":"2019-03-23T17:31:13","modified_gmt":"2019-03-23T17:31:13","slug":"digvijaya-singh-congress-candidate-from-bhopal-kamal-nath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/?p=21336","title":{"rendered":"Digvijaya Singh Congress candidate from Bhopal: Kamal Nath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify; background: white; margin: 0in -.2in 10.2pt -.2in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #383636; background: white;\">\u00a0Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh will be the party&#8217;s nominee from Bhopal Lok Sabha seat&#8211; a BJP stronghold since the last three decades&#8211; Madhya Pradesh chief minister Kamal Nath said on Saturday.<\/span>The announcement was made at the &#8220;Holi Milan&#8221; programme organised by the Congress here and comes a week after Nath had said that if Singh wants to contest the Lok Sabha polls, he should choose the &#8220;toughest seat&#8221; in the state.Singh, a former chief minister and a royale, had accepted the &#8220;challenge&#8221; the next day.Bhopal Lok Sabha constituency, which was represented by Shankar Dayal Sharma in 1971-77 and 1980-1984, has been held by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) since 1989.<span style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #383636;\"><br style=\"font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;\" \/> <span style=\"background: white;\"><span style=\"font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; word-spacing: 0px;\">Sharma had served as the President of India from 1992 to 1997.<\/span>The Congress had last won the Bhopal seat in 1984.<\/span><\/span><br style=\"font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;\" \/> <span style=\"background: white;\"><span style=\"font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; word-spacing: 0px;\">Nath said, &#8220;I have a list of party candidates in my pocket but I can&#8217;t disclose. 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(Congress) Election Committee yesterday (Friday) finalised the name of Digvijaya Singh ji from Bhopal&#8221;.<\/span><\/span><br style=\"font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;\" \/> <span style=\"background: white;\"><span style=\"font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; word-spacing: 0px;\">&#8220;I had requested Digvijaya Singh that you had been the chief minister for so long, and it doesn&#8217;t suit you if you say that I will contest from Rajgarh (Digvijay&#8217;s home turf),&#8221; he said.<\/span><\/span><br style=\"font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;\" \/> <span style=\"background: white;\"><span style=\"font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; word-spacing: 0px;\">The chief minister said he had asked Singh to contest from any other seat like Bhopal, Indore, Jabalpur etc.<\/span>&#8220;As Singh told me to take a decision, I have offered him to contest from Bhopal,&#8221; he said.<\/span>Singh, who had served as the chief minister of Madhya Pradesh between 1993-2003, is currently a member of the Rajya Sabha.Bhopal constituency is represented by BJP&#8217;s Alok Sanjar, who had won the seat in 2014 by a margin of 3.70 lakh votes.BJP stalwarts like Sushil Chandra Verma, Uma Bharati and Kailash Joshi had represented the seat in the past.<br style=\"font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;\" \/> <span style=\"background: white;\"><span style=\"font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; word-spacing: 0px;\">Former cricketer late Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, scion of the erstwhile Bhopal State, had unsuccessfully contested from Bhopal on a Congress&#8217; ticket in 1991.<\/span>The constituency is spread over eight assembly segments, namely Berasia, Bhopal Uttar, Narela, Bhopal Dakshin-Paschhim, Bhopal Madhya, Govindpura, Huzur and Sehore.<\/span><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh will be the party&#8217;s nominee from Bhopal Lok Sabha seat&#8211; a BJP stronghold since the last three decades&#8211; Madhya Pradesh chief minister Kamal Nath said on Saturday.The announcement was made at the &#8220;Holi Milan&#8221; programme organised by the Congress here and comes a week after Nath had said that if Singh wants to contest the Lok Sabha polls, he should choose the &#8220;toughest seat&#8221; in the state.Singh, a former chief minister and a royale, had accepted the &#8220;challenge&#8221; the next day.Bhopal Lok Sabha constituency, which&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21339,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21336"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21341,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21336\/revisions\/21341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}