Digvijaya Singh

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Digvijaya Singh
Singh in 2020
Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha
Incumbent
Assumed office
10 April 2014
Preceded byRaghunandan Sharma
ConstituencyMadhya Pradesh
14th Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh
In office
7 December 1993 – 8 December 2003
Preceded byPresident's rule
Succeeded byUma Bharati
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
In office
1984–1989
Preceded byPandit Vasantkumar Ramkrishna
Succeeded byPyarelal Khandelwal
ConstituencyRajgarh
In office
1991–1994
Preceded byPyarelal Khandelwal
Succeeded byLakshman Singh
ConstituencyRajgarh
Member of Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly
In office
1998 (1998)–2008 (2008)
Preceded byLakshman Singh
Succeeded byMool Singh
ConstituencyRaghogarh[1][2]
In office
1994 (1994)–1998 (1998)
Preceded byShivnarayan Meena
Succeeded byShivnarayan Meena
ConstituencyChachoura[3]
In office
1977 (1977)–1984 (1984)
Preceded byHarlal Shakyawar
Succeeded byMool Singh
ConstituencyRaghogarh[4][5]
Personal details
Born (1947-02-28) 28 February 1947 (age 77)
Indore, Holkar State, British India
(now in Madhya Pradesh, India)
Political partyIndian National Congress
Spouses
Asha Digvijaya Singh
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​
(m. 1969; died 2013)​
Amrita Rai
​
(m. 2015)​
Children5, including Jaivardhan Singh
Alma materShri Govindram Seksaria Institute of Technology and Science (SGSITS) Indore
ProfessionPolitician, agriculturist[6]
WebsiteDigvijayaSingh.in
NicknameDiggi Raja[7][8]

Digvijaya Singh (born 28 February 1947) is an Indian politician and a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha since 2014. He is a senior leader of the Indian National Congress and Ex-General Secretary of the Indian National Congress party's All India Congress Committee.[9] Previously, he had served as the 14th and 15th Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, a central Indian state, in two terms from 1993 to 1998 and from 1998 to 2003. Prior to that he was a minister in Chief Minister Arjun Singh's cabinet between 1980 and 1984. In 2019 Indian general election he was defeated by Pragya Singh Thakur for Bhopal Lok Sabha seat.[10]

  1. ^ "Madhya Pradesh Assembly Election Results in 1998". elections.in. Retrieved 6 April 2021.
  2. ^ "Madhya Pradesh Assembly Election Results in 2003". elections.in. Retrieved 6 April 2021.
  3. ^ "Madhya Pradesh Assembly Election Results in 1993". elections.in. Retrieved 6 April 2021.
  4. ^ "Madhya Pradesh Assembly Election Results in 1977". elections.in. Retrieved 6 April 2021.
  5. ^ "Madhya Pradesh Assembly Election Results in 1980". elections.in. Retrieved 6 April 2021.
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference Member's Profile, 10th Lok Sabha was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  7. ^ Noronha, Rahul (12 April 2018). "Diggi raja is back". India Today. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
  8. ^ ANI (13 May 2019). "'Diggi Raja' misleading first-time voters by not voting, claims PM". Business Standard India. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
  9. ^ "Biography of Digvijaya Singh". Office of Digvijaya Singh. Archived from the original on 22 April 2013. Retrieved 7 April 2022.
  10. ^ "GENERAL ELECTION TO LOK SABHA TRENDS & RESULT 2019". ECI. 24 May 2019. Retrieved 3 June 2019.