Wednesday, October 10, 2012

PROFILE: DIGVIJAY SINGH

'Diggi Raja' has attained an enviable political stature, and has kept his feet firmly on the ground

On the personal front, this Raja of Raghogarh is said to be a man who tries painstakingly to keep his words. Talking about returning to Madhya Pradesh politics is like anathema to him. He is happy dispensing his duty as General Secretary of the party. Diggi Raja has command of important states like Uttar Pradesh apart from managing and planning election campaigns, yet he has his feet firmly on the ground. His baiters suggest that his engineering background affects his decision making. For example, he dwells so deeply in any problem that by the time he reaches to the conclusion, the problem loses its relevance. His crusade for poor and landless and plan for redistribution of untilled land made him deeply unpopular among the 'upper castes' in the state. Congress paid the price in 1998 elections. But one of his best friends and one time accomplice of Sanjay Gandhi, Mahesh Joshi, maintains that Singh has always been a man of integrity and that his dependence on bureaucrats dented his popularity.

Singh is also always ready to help everyone, even the people he doesn’t know personally. It is therefore not surprising that the father of Pragya Singh, one of the accused of Malegaon Blasts, has alleged that when Singh was CM, he tried to get her a job. Old habits die hard. Such beamers have troubled Singh from time to time, but he's far too experienced to let them bog him down.


Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.

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