New Delhi: Congress General Secretary Digvijaya Singh on Sunday expressed readiness to contest the next Lok Sabha elections saying his vow to stay away from electoral politics for ten years comes to an end in November next year.
"I will offer myself for contest in elections in 2014 if the party wants me," Singh, a former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister, told reporters.
In reply to a question, Singh said he would like to contest from his home state. In December 2003, Singh as Chief Minister had claimed "full responsibility" for his party's defeat against Uma Bharti-led BJP and had declared that he would honour his commitment to stay away from electoral politics for a decade if Congress lost.
At that time, Singh had said he will work as a grassroot worker for the next 10 years. "I have a lot to do. Even as a grassroot worker, I will concentrate on my pet projects of social empowerment, decentralisation, communal harmony, development of Dalits and backwards."
In February 2004, he was made a member of Congress Working Committee and General Secretary of the party. Assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh are scheduled by the end of 2013. Congress is in the opposition in the state since the defeat in 2003.
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