Here are twelve facts on the left-of-the-center politics representative of the Congress:
- He is a General Secretary of the Indian National Congress Party’s All India Congress Committee.
- He also has served himself as the 9th Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh for two terms that is from 1993 to 2003.
- He is the son of Balbhadra Singh who had been a ruler of the princely state of the Raghogarh which is currently the Guna district of Madhya Pradesh.
- He completed his education in Indore from Dale college and Shri Govindram Seksaria Institute of Technology and Science by doing a B.E. in Mechanical Engineering.
- His wife Asha Singh died in 2013 and has four daughters and a son.
- He also confirmed that he is in a relation with a television journalist Amrita Rai in 2014.
- His political Career
- 1977-1993 MLA and MP
- 1993-2003 Chief Minister
- currently General Secretary of the Indian National Party
- In recent times he has been known in the news for opposing the right wing Hindu Groups.
- Singh once opposing the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) said that it was a threat to national unity and considered them to be like Nazis.
- He is often referred to as modern day Arjun Singh.
- Recently he said, “”Parrikar should stop playing shadow” pointing towards Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar playing as a Shadow chief minister of Goa.
- He also asked Naxals to shun violence and join Congress.
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