Madhya Pradesh’s longest-serving Congress chief minister, Digvijaya Singh, has over the past few years built himself quite a parallel reputation—that of a (traveller). In 2018, months ahead of the state assembly election, Singh completed the arduous six-month-long Narmada , an east to west to east circumambulation of the holy river, during which he visited over 100 assembly constituencies. A few months ago, he was part of Rahul Gandhi’s 4,000-plus km Bharat Jodo Yatra. Now, ahead of the 2023 election, the task handed to Singh by his old friend and Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) president, Kamal Nath, does not entail a linear route, though it does have a clear objective. After touring for over three months some 66 assembly seats his
