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Laxman returns to Congress  January 22, 2013 17:42 IST  Laxman
Singh, younger brother of Congress general secretary Digvijay
Singh, officially returned to the Congress fold at party
headquarters in New Delhi.  All India Congress Committee general
secretary in-charge of Madhya Pradesh B K Hariprasad confirmed
that Laxman re-joined the party in the  national capital on
Monday.  Laxman's return to the party was cleared by the
Congress high-command, after which his elder brother Digvijay
Singh proposed his membership which was then accepted by
Hariprasad.  Laxman, who had left the party in 2003 after
Congress lost the assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh, had
joined the BJP and won 2004 Lok Sabha elections, but lost in
2009.   "I will work for the party with full dedication and
strength," Laxman told PTI, adding, there was a lot of