In a burst that grabbed the attention of political commentators yesterday, Congress senior Rajya Sabha member and former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Digvijaya Singh posted a decades‑old photograph of former Gujarat chief minister Shankersinh Vaghela’s swearing‑in ceremony, a picture that had long lain hidden in a Q&A website. The image shows L.K. Advani seated in a chair while Narendra Modi—then a grassroots organizer—rampantly sat on the floor beside him.
Singh took to X, remarking that the photo “is very impactful” and praising the BJP and RSS for how they have propelled their field workers to top state and national posts, specifically pointing out Modi’s progression from the floor to the premiership. He closed his tweet with the mantra, “Jai Siya Ram.”
The post, which went viral almost instantly, came out at a time when the Congress Working Committee was meeting in Delhi. By tagging the party’s national president, Mallikarjun Kharge, opposition leader in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, and Congress general secretary and Wayanad MP, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Singh seemed to send a sharp message to his own ranks.
Earlier, on December 19, Singh had already fired a salvo at Rahul Gandhi, calling for deeper reforms and a more decentralized model for the party. He ended that tweet with a blunt admission that persuading Gandhi would be hard.
The BJP’s spokesperson, C. R. Kesavan, responded on the same day, demanding a reply from Gandhi regarding the two posts. He accused the Congress leadership of acting “dictatorily” and “undemocratically” and urged Gandhi to confront what Singh had called a “shocking truth bomb.”
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