On a day when Rahul Gandhi kicked off his poll campaign for upcoming elections in Madhya Pradesh, the hashtag #Digvijaya4CM was seen on the top trends on Twitter. Elaborating his stand on the hashtag, Digvijay Singh said, he has no intention to become a chief minister.
He even distanced himself from the hashtag by saying, whoever started this is not my well-wisher. I have been CM for many decades and there is no question of going back to my statement that, “I am not a CM candidate”. I am not that kind of person who say something and do something.
While there were several tweets on microblogging site saying, Digvijay Singh would be the best CM candidate from the Congress. The moment Rahul Gandhi began his poll campaign, the hashtag has started a trend.
Notably, Digvijay Singh was nowhere to be found in any posters around Bhopal on Monday. Which also lead to a rumour of a rift between him and Congress president. The massive cutouts included those of top leaders including Rahul, his mother Sonia Gandhi, Kamal Nath, Jyotiraditya Scindia among others.
Rahul kicked off his poll campaign after taking the blessings from 11 Hindu priests in the Lalgathi area and holding a roadshow in the poll-bound state. He was accorded a grand welcome at the airport by Madhya Pradesh Congress president Kamal Nath and senior party leader and Guna MP Jyotiraditya Scindia among others.
There were many posters welcoming Rahul Gandhi and showing him a ‘Shiv bhakt’ were put up across the city. Chants of ‘Rahul Gandhi Zindabad’ were also heard on his arrival. Thousands of Congressmen thronged the roadsides and jostled to catch a glimpse of their party chief, who set out in the bus along with senior party leaders.
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