Congress Veteran Digvijaya Singh's Son Jaivardhan Appointed Madhya Pradesh Vice President — Details

Jaivardhan Singh, Congress MLA from Raghogarh has been appointed as the Madhya Pradesh Congress Vice President with immediate effect.

Jaivardhan Singh, Congress MLA from Raghogarh has been appointed as the Madhya Pradesh Congress Vice President with immediate effect.

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The All India Congress Committee on Saturday released a list of various newly-appointed Vice Presidents, General Secretaries, Executive Committee, Permanent Invitees and Special Invitees of the Madhya Pradesh Congress Committee. The statement was issued by Congress General Secretary KC Venugopl after party chief Mallikarjun Kharge approved for the leaders' appointments.

In the list, the name of Congress general secretary Digivijaya Singh's son Jaivardhan Singh also featured. The Congress MLA from Raghogarh has been appointed as the Madhya Pradesh Congress Vice President with immediate effect.

Besides Singh, 16 other Congress leaders have been appointed as the Vice President of the party's MP unit. These include Aarif Masood, Hina Kaware, Hamid Qazi, Lakhan Singh Yadav, Jhuma Solanki, Phool Singh Baraiya, Rajeev Singh, Siddharth Kushwaha, and Surendra Honey Baghel among others.

Congress has also appointed 71 general secretaries for the state. These include Chetan Yadav, Abhay Tiwari, Atif Akeel, Gaurav Raghuvanshi, Harsh Vijay Gahlot, Kiran Ahirwar, Narayan Patta, Radhe Baghel, Rekha Chaudhary, Rajneesh Singh, Vikrant Bhuria, and Suresh Raje among others.

Atleast 16 Executive Committee Members, 40 special invitees, and 33 permanent invitees have also been named by the grand old party. 

Jaivardhan Singh was first elected from Raghogarh constituency in MP's Guna district after he won electoral debut in 2013, defeating BJP's Radhe Shyam Dhakad by a margin of 58,204 votes. When he was elected from the assembly seat back in 2013, Jaivardhan was the youngest minister in Kamal Nath's cabinet. In 2018, he won the seat again with in 2018 with 46,697 -- a drop of 11,507 votes.

The Singh family has held the Raghogarh seat since 1977, and the BJP has been trying to wrest it for decades now. Digvijay Singh had been the chief minister of MP for a decade till 2003.