Congress candidate laxman Singh who is pitted against Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) stalwart and leader of Opposition in the lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj, is hopeful of his victory in Vidisha in Madhya Pradesh.
Earlier also laxman has defeated BJP biggies like Pyarelal Khandelwal and Kailash Joshi in elections.
Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh’s younger brother laxman, who is the party nominee from Vidisha constituency in Madhya Pradesh for the upcoming lok Sabha polls scheduled in the third and last phase of polling in the State on April 24, said he was hopeful of a victory against Sushma Swaraj. laxman while talking to ‘The Pioneer’ said that there is no question of his being afraid of his BJP opponent.
“I love overcoming challenges and I am very hopeful that I will win,” he said adding, he had full faith in Congress workers from the constituency who would work towards it.
He thanked the Congress leadership for having faith in him and giving him an opportunity to contest from Vidisha.
He said that Vidisha is not a new place for him. In fact, Sushma has not visited the constituency very often, after winning from here in 2009, he added.
Sushma secured an easy win after she contested for the first time from Vidisha in 2009 when Congress nominee Rajkumar Patel’s nomination papers had been rejected on some grounds. “But, what happened last time will not be repeated this time, Sushma would now know what an election really means,” he said.
laxman Singh, who officially returned to the Congress last year, launched his political career from the Raghogarh municipality in 1987. He was elected twice as MlA from Raghogarh Assembly seat and five times MP from Rajgarh constituency, four times for the Congress party and once for the BJP.
He had quit the Congress in 2004 to join the rival party, from which he was expelled in 2010.