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Digvijaya Singh
Singh in 2020
Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha
Incumbent
Assumed office 10 April 2014
Preceded by
Raghunandan Sharma
Constituency
Madhya Pradesh
14th Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh
In office 7 December 1993 – 8 December 2003
Governor
Mohammad Shafi Qureshi Bhai Mahavir Ram Prakash Gupta
Deputy
Subhash Yadav(1993-1998) Jamuna Devi (1998–2003)
Preceded by
Sunderlal Patwa
Succeeded by
Uma Bharati
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
In office 1984–1989
Preceded by
Pandit Vasantkumar Ramkrishna
Succeeded by
Pyarelal Khandelwal
Constituency
Rajgarh
In office 1991–1994
Preceded by
Pyarelal Khandelwal
Succeeded by
Lakshman Singh
Constituency
Rajgarh
Member of Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly
In office 1998 (1998)–2008 (2008)
Preceded by
Lakshman Singh
Succeeded by
Mool Singh
Constituency
Raghogarh[1][2]
In office 1994 (1994)–1998 (1998)
Preceded by
Shivnarayan Meena
Succeeded by
Shivnarayan Meena
Constituency
Chachoura[3]
In office 1977 (1977)–1984 (1984)
Preceded by
Harlal Shakyawar
Succeeded by
Mool Singh
Constituency
Raghogarh[4][5]
Personal details
Born
(1947-02-28) 28 February 1947 (age 77) Indore, Holkar State, Central Provinces and Berar, British India (now in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India)
Political party
Indian National Congress
Spouses
Asha Digvijaya Singh
(m. 1969; died 2013)
Amrita Rai
(m. 2015)
Children
5, including Jaivardhan Singh
Alma mater
Shri Govindram Seksaria Institute of Technology and Science (SGSITS) Indore
Profession
Politician, agriculturist[6]
Website
DigvijayaSingh.in
Nickname
Diggi Raja[7][8]
Digvijaya Singh (born 28 February 1947) is an Indian politician and a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha. He is Ex-General Secretary of the Indian National Congress party's All India Congress Committee.[9] Previously, he had served as the 14th Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, a central Indian state, for two terms from 1993 to 2003. Prior to that he was a minister in Chief Minister Arjun Singh's cabinet between 1980 and 1984. In 2019 Lok Sabha elections he was defeated by Pragya Singh Thakur for Bhopal Lok Sabha seat.[10]
^"Madhya Pradesh Assembly Election Results in 1998". elections.in. Retrieved 6 April 2021.
^"Madhya Pradesh Assembly Election Results in 2003". elections.in. Retrieved 6 April 2021.
^"Madhya Pradesh Assembly Election Results in 1993". elections.in. Retrieved 6 April 2021.
^"Madhya Pradesh Assembly Election Results in 1977". elections.in. Retrieved 6 April 2021.
^"Madhya Pradesh Assembly Election Results in 1980". elections.in. Retrieved 6 April 2021.
^Cite error: The named reference Member's Profile, 10th Lok Sabha was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Noronha, Rahul (12 April 2018). "Diggi raja is back". India Today. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
^ANI (13 May 2019). "'Diggi Raja' misleading first-time voters by not voting, claims PM". Business Standard India. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
^"Biography of Digvijaya Singh". Office of Digvijaya Singh. Archived from the original on 22 April 2013. Retrieved 7 April 2022.
^"GENERAL ELECTION TO LOK SABHA TRENDS & RESULT 2019". ECI. 24 May 2019. Retrieved 3 June 2019.
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