The Congress has nominated Ashok Singh as its candidate for the upcoming Rajya Sabha elections from Madhya Pradesh. Nonetheless, there’s a rising query throughout the Congress and the political circles of Madhya Pradesh relating to the choice to pick Ashok Singh regardless of a number of influential leaders of the Madhya Pradesh Congress. Regardless of his going through defeat within the Lok Sabha elections thrice, the Congress agreed on the identify of Ashok Singh.
Ashok Singh contested the final three Lok Sabha polls towards the BJP unsuccessfully- in 2009, in 2014 and in 2019. Regardless of these three consecutive defeats, Congress has nominated him as its candidate for the Rajya Sabha. Singh who is claimed to have some command over voters within the Gwalior-Chambal area has been a vocal critic of Jyotiraditya Scindia who left Congress to affix the BJP.
Ashok Singh was chosen over Rahul Gandhi’s decide Meenakshi Natarajan. Different candidates who have been within the fray have been Arun Yadav and Kamleshwar Patel. Singh, hailing from Gwalior, is primarily acknowledged as an in depth affiliate of Digvijaya Singh.
After an intensive tenure because the State Treasurer of the Pradesh Congress, Singh has participated in 4 Lok Sabha elections from Gwalior. His first political appointment got here through the Kamal Nath authorities when he was made the Apex Financial institution administrator. Ashok Singh stands out amongst Pradesh Congress leaders for fostering pleasant relations with all celebration members. His father, Rajendra Singh, entered the political area in 1971, finally changing into a legislator and serving because the Public Works Minister within the Shyama Charan Shukla cupboard.
Nonetheless, what distinguished him was his constant opposition, described as “pathological,” in direction of the previous celebration insider Jyotiraditya Scindia. He has typically mentioned that opposition to Scindia is in his DNA. This explicit side of his political stance seems to have performed an important position, particularly contemplating the celebration’s efforts to reconstruct its presence within the Gwalior-Chambal area following Scindia’s departure and the defeat of distinguished leaders within the current meeting elections. Moreover, his OBC standing additional strengthened his candidacy.
