Digvijay Singh, All India Congress Committee (AICC) General Secretary, reached Raipur on Monday evening on his four-day visit. He would meet the family members of Congress leaders killed Darbha Ghati on May 25 after Maoists attacked the Carcade of the party which was returning from Sukma.
The senior Congress party leader after landing at Swami Vivekanand Airport reached Ram Krishna Care Hospital where he meet with the survivors of the Darbha massacre currently under treatment at the hospital. Talking with media-persons, he said that he has reached Raipur to share the grief of martyr’s families and expressing solidarity with them. Digvijay Singh later visited Tekari village in Dharsinwa and consoled the family of party leader Yogendra Sharma, who was one of the victims of the Darbha incident.
Singh is expected to visit the families of late Mahendra Karma in Faraspal district of Dantewada and also late Uday Mudaliyar in Rajnandgaon on June 4. Digvijay Singh would be visiting village Nandeli on June 5 to meet the family of late Nand Kumar Patel and be part of ‘Dashgatra’ or tenth day ritual for the deceased according to Hindu ritual.