The Congress today decided to nominate Sultanpur MP Sanjay Singh to the Rajya Sabha from Assam, being seen as a move to pre-empt his walking out of the party. The 'Raja of Amethi', 62, is the second outsider the party has nominated to represent the north-eastern state in the House of Elders. There is of course the other Singh, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who is into his fifth term as a member of the Rajya Sabha from the state.
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