The competing quests for the reservoir of votes are of the Congress’s Digvijaya Singh and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s Hindutva face, Pragya Thakur Singh, who prefers the suffix of Sadhvi. For his part, Digvijaya Singh has taken the gauntlet on a terrain the Congress couldn’t regain after losing it three decades ago, in 1989. His BJP rivals use that as a handle to blast the Kamal Nath government, recalling the “poor” development record that had cost Digvijaya Singh the office in 2003. Digvijaya Singh told me as much in an interview: “I don’t speak against my opponents in elections. At the seat the BJP won by 3.5 lakh votes in 2014, nobody says the Congress is losing.

Source: Hindustan Times May 10, 2019 01:41 UTC