Congress president election: Senior leader Digvijaya Singh enters race

Singh, currently part of Bharat Jodo Yatra, had a week back said he was not ruling himself out of the party chief's post but later publicly stated that he was not interested

Former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Digvijaya Singh travelled from Bhopal to Delhi late this evening, his supporters said, to file his nomination for the presidentship of the party after Kamal Nath told reporters in Madhya Pradesh that his focus would continue to be the state. “I cannot do justice to the national presidentship of a party like the Congress. The MP assembly election is due in less than a year and my eyes are firmly fixed on that” he said in Bhopal. When asked if Digvijaya Singh was likely to file his papers for the position, he said testily: “you