A veteran leader of the Congress party, Digvijaya Singh is a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha is also currently the General Secretary of the grand old party's All India Congress Committee. For two terms from 1993 to 2003, he had served as the 14th Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, a central Indian state. Between 1980–84, he was a minister in Chief Minister Arjun Singh's cabinet. In 1969, he was married to Asha Singh. She died in 2013. In August 2015, he married to Rajya Sabha TV anchor Amrita Rai.
Read MoreScindia had resigned from Congress and joined the BJP in March 2020. His move resulted in the collapse of the Kamal Nath government just 15 months after its formation.
Launching a veiled attack at the RSS, Senior Congress leader and former Madhya Pradesh chief minister alleged that Saraswati Shishu Mandir, RSS-backed schools were sowing the seeds of hatred against other religions in the minds of young children.
Singh was commenting on Bhagwat's comment on men being breadwinners and women the housewives.
Digvijaya Singh on Monday said if Bhagwat is true to his words, he must give directions that all those BJP leaders who "harassed" innocent Muslims be removed from their posts.
Prasada, who is from Uttar Pradesh, recently severed his family's three-generation ties with the Congress and joined the BJP.
National Investigation Agency (NIA) should investigate the phone calls of Digvijay Singh, and questioned the involvement of a Pakistani journalist in this chat, demands
BJP has slammed the Congress party over Digvijaya Singh's alleged leaked chat in which he was heard saying that if their party comes back to power they would have a rethink on Article 370 and may restore it.
The Congress, which headed the Assam Grand Alliance, managed to win just 29 seats in the 126-seat Assam Assembly.
Senior Congress leaders Randeep Singh Surjewala and Digvijaya Singh have tested positive for Covid-19.
Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on Saturday reacted on party MLA Sukhdev Panse's derogatory remark on actor Kangana Ranaut who referred her as 'naachne gaane waali'.
Digvijaya Singh called Narendra Singh Tomar, the Union Agriculture Minister, a 'good' person, but added that he has little knowledge about farming.
Jyotiraditya Scindia attacked the Congress for changing its stand on the three farm reforms, saying that the party has favoured similar laws in its manifesto for the 2019 Lok Sabha election.
Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh has donated Rs 1,11,111 for the construction of Ram Mandir in Ayodhya.
Digvijaya Singh had said he wants to meet MLAs, who are his "voters" for the Rajya Sabha polls in Madhya Pradesh and will stay here till he meets them. Claiming that Singh had come to the city, as he got a message from few rebel MLAs, Shivakumar asked: "Why is police blocking, they don't have any right to block, they are blocking the right of a candidate."
Madhya Pradesh political crisis: Congress leader Digvijaya Singh flew into Bengaluru from Bhopal to meet the rebel lawmakers, also alleged that the local police were not allowing him to meet his own party legislators.
Digvijaya Singh had arrived at the Kempegowda International Airport in Bengaluru early Wednesday and was received by the newly-appointed president of the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) and former Karnataka minister DK Shivakumar.
Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on Friday accused the BJP government at the Centre of implementing the "Gujarat Model of Governance" where innocents are framed in "false" cases. Singh said former finance minister and party colleague P Chidambaram, arrested in the INX Media corruption case and lodged in Tihar jail, has been falsely implicated.
Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh has fired yet another controversial remark. He claimed that non-Muslims are spying for Pakistan's premier intelligence agency - the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), more than Muslims.
During a debate in Rajya Sabha on the amendment in the anti-terror law Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Amendment Bill, 2019, (UAPA), Singh asked Shah not to act with "political motives" while being a home minister. He commented Shah occupies the post which was once held by Vallabhbhai Patel and he should act like a statesman.
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