Rajya Sabha MP Digvijaya Singh’s social media post on Saturday praising the RSS may have taken Congress leaders by surprise, but it is not the first time that the former Madhya Pradesh chief minister has stirred the hornet’s nest. AdvertisementHis rise in the Congress began in 1985 after Rajiv Gandhi, then the prime minister and Congress president, picked a 38-year-old Singh to head the Madhya Pradesh Congress. He has also served as a two-term chief minister for the Congress in Madhya Pradesh. Digvijaya claimed that the ATS chief had told him that he had been receiving threat calls from Hindu extremists. The former Madhya Pradesh CM took on the then Union Home Minister, P Chidambaram, in 2010 on the government’s anti-Naxal policy, even calling him “intellectually arrogant” in a newspaper article.

Source: Indian Express December 28, 2025 11:47 UTC