Digvijaya Singh's brother returns to Congress

January 22, 2013 16:43

Laxman Singh, younger brother of Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh, officially returned to the Congress fold at the party headquarters in New Delhi.

AICC general secretary in-charge of Madhya Pradesh, B K Hariprasad, confirmed that Laxman re-joined the party in the national capital yesterday.

Laxman's return to the party was cleared by the Congress high command, after which his elder brother Digvijaya Singh proposed his membership which was then accepted by Hariprasad.

Laxman, who had left the party in 2003 after the Congress lost the assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh, had joined the BJP and won the 2004 Lok Sabha elections, but lost in 2009. He was later expelled by the BJP for anti-party activities after he criticised the party president Nitin Gadkari for making some remarks against his family.

"I will work for the party with full dedication and strength," Laxman said, adding that there was a lot of pressure from the Congress workers to join the party.

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