VISAKHAPATNAM: A couple of months after he was spotted rubbing shoulders with All India Congress Committee general secretary Digvijay Singh in Hyderabad, disgraced Satyam founder B Ramalinga Raju is learnt to have met him again here on Sunday night after the inaugural of ASR Bhavan set up by the Kshatriya Samkshema Samithi.

According to sources from the Raju community, Ramalinga Raju was seen having a word with Singh, who was recently appointed in-charge of Congress affairs in Andhra Pradesh , after the function.

Sources said that though Digvijay Singh was scheduled to meet Raju at a city hotel on Sunday night, he could not make time as his meeting with PCC chief Botsa Satyanarayana and others at the Circuit House went on till way past midnight. Singh was then to have a breakfast meeting with Raju in a hotel on Monday morning but that too was cancelled at the last minute as the senior Congress leader had to catch a morning flight to Hyderabad, the sources added.

Raju, the main accused in the Satyam scam, and his brother B Rama Raju who attended the KSS function, are learnt to have arrived in the city on Sunday and left on Monday morning. They were reportedly put up in a five-star hotel.

Even as scam-tainted Raju's public appearances with the AICC general secretary have been raising eyebrows, Union minister of state for commerce and industry Daggubati Purandeswari , one of the guests of the function, praised Raju for his social service and philanthropy through the Byrraju Foundation and initiatives like the 108 ambulance service, sources present at the function said.

Congress Rajya Sabha Member T Subbarami Reddy, TTD chairman Kanumuri Bapiraju and Vizianagaram MLA Ashok Gajapati Raju were also present on the dais at the function, which was out of bounds for the media.

According to sources, Raju, who has been out on bail, has been mingling with relatives and friends and has been seen attending weddings within the community.

