Sister-in-law Rubina confirms Amrita’s pregnancy.
On Wednesday, 67 year old Congress leader Digvijay Singh accepted his long affair with 43 year old journalist Amrita Rai on twitter. There tweet was in-sync after the pictures of the love-birds were ‘leaked’ online. They were also quick in announcing that they will tie the knot once Amrita’s divorce with her professor husband Anand Pradhan is formalized.
Digvijaya Singh planning his vacation with Amrita Rai in Italy after May 16 http://t.co/UXOo5CV2pa #DigVijaySingh pic.twitter.com/ua5mjb4v7m
— India Opines (@IndiaOpines) May 1, 2014
I have no hesitation in accepting my relationship with Amrita Rai. She and her husband have already filed a mutual consent divorce case.
— digvijaya singh (@digvijaya_28) April 30, 2014
Once that is decided we would formalise it. But I do condemn encroachment in our private life.
— digvijaya singh (@digvijaya_28) April 30, 2014
I have separated from my husband and we have filed a mutual consent divorce papers. After which I have decided to marry with Digvijaya Singh
— amrita rai (@amrritarai) April 30, 2014
Amrita was a journalist with NDTV and was working with Rajyasabha TV afterwards. Anand and Amrita had been living separately for quite some years. Digvijay was in a consensual relationship with Amrita at a time when his wife was battling cancer.
The news was followed by a congratulatory tweet by Digvijay’s sister-in-law Rubina Singh. Rubina is wife of Digvijay’s broter Laxman Singh who is contesting against BJP leader Sushma Swaraj from Vidisha on Congress ticket. Rubina also confirmed the news of Amrita being pregnant on twitter.
So was this really the reason why @digvijaya_28 was forced to come out of the closet? @ndtv @ibnlive @timesnow pic.twitter.com/30edWBtDIC
— MediaCrooks (@mediacrooks) May 1, 2014
Oddly enough, she deleted both her tweets and now the screengrabs of her tweets are doing rounds on the social media.
Incidentally, Amrita had tweeted earlier yesterday that her computer was tampered with and her e-mail was allegedly hacked thus giving an excuse for the leaked pictures. But Rubina, in a twitter conversation revealed that it was none other than Amrita who leaked the photos.
My email/computer been hacked & contents tampered with. It is a serious crime in India & encroachment of my privacy. I strongly condemn it
— amrita rai (@amrritarai) April 30, 2014
Once Again I am proved correct….. It’s Amrita who leaked photo https://t.co/g5sWgISpT1 #DigVijaySingh #jaiho pic.twitter.com/RJ0vbaohYA
— #JAIHO (@drgpradhan) May 1, 2014
Interestingly, Digvijay Singh and the Congress party had raised a lot of hullabaloo over BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi’s child marriage and its status. Modi’s marriage, according to his family, was never consummated and he lived a life of loner all his life while his wife stayed separately with her brothers.
Now that Digvijay’s own affairs are out in public, he and the Congress clan is calling it a ‘private’ matter.
It should be noted that the character and affairs of Congress leaders have always been in news. Most of them have remained defiant over their single or happily married status denying any of their relationships.
This is the reason that the possibility of Amrita leaking pictures to force Digvijay into marriage cannot be denied. And what would be a better time than attention grabbing Lok Sabha elections?
