Jyotiraditya Scindia Explained

Jyotiraditya M. Scindia
Office:43rd Union Minister of Communications
Term Start:10 June 2024
Predecessor:Ashwini Vaishnaw
Primeminister:Narendra Modi
Office1:10th Union Minister of the Development of North Eastern Region
Term Start1:10 June 2024
Predecessor1:G. Kishan Reddy
Primeminister1:Narendra Modi
Office2:32nd Union Minister of Civil Aviation
Term Start2:7 July 2021
Primeminister2:Narendra Modi
Term End2:10 June 2024
Predecessor2:Hardeep Singh Puri
Successor2:Kinjarapu Ram Mohan Naidu
Office3:34th Union Minister of Steel
Term Start3:6 July 2022
Term End3:10 June 2024
Primeminister3:Narendra Modi
Predecessor3:Ramchandra Prasad Singh
Successor3:H. D. Kumaraswamy
Office4:30th Union Minister of Power and Corporate
Primeminister4:Manmohan Singh
Term Start4:28 October 2012
Term End4:26 May 2014
Predecessor4:Veerappa Moily
Successor4:Piyush Goyal
Constituency5:Guna, Madhya Pradesh
Office5:Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
Term Start5:4 June 2024
Predecessor5:Dr. K. P. Yadav
Term6:2002 — 23 May 2019
Predecessor6:Madhavrao Scindia
Successor6:Dr. K. P. Yadav
Constituency6:Guna, Madhya Pradesh
Office7:Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha
Term Start7:20 June 2020
Term End7:4 June 2024
Constituency7:Madhya Pradesh
Predecessor7:Satyanarayan Jatiya
Relatives:See Scindia family
Party:Bharatiya Janata Party (2020–present)
Alma Mater:Harvard University (B.A.)
Stanford University (M.B.A.)
Children:2
Otherparty:Indian National Congress
(2001–2020)
Father:Madhavrao Scindia
Birth Date:1 January 1971
Birth Place:Bombay, Maharashtra, India
(present-day Mumbai)
Residence:Jai Vilas Palace, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India
27, Safdarjung Road, New Delhi, Delhi, India

Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia (born 1 January 1971) is an Indian politician who is the 43rd Union Minister of Communications and the 10th Minister of Development of North Eastern Region since 2024. He was a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha representing the state of Madhya Pradesh from 2020 till his win in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.[1] He is a Member of Parliament in the Lok Sabha, representing the Guna constituency in Madhya Pradesh from 2002 until his defeat in the 2019 Indian general election, and then since 4 June 2024. He is a former member of the Indian National Congress (INC) from 2001 to 2020 and a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) since 2020. While a member of the INC, he was the Union Minister for Power and Corporate in the second Manmohan Singh ministry from 2012 to 2014.

Scindia is the son of politician Madhavrao Scindia, and a grandson of Jiwajirao Scindia, the last ruler of the princely state of Gwalior during the British Raj in India. Jyotiraditya was briefly the titular Crown Prince of Gwalior in 1971, until the privy purses and titles of Indian royals were abolished by the government in 1971.

Early life and education

Scindia was born on 1 January 1971 in Mumbai to Madhavrao Scindia and Madhavi Raje Scindia. He originally belongs to Kurmi caste.[2] [3] He was educated at Campion School, Mumbai and at The Doon School, Dehradun.[4] At Doon, Scindia was a contemporary of Rahul Gandhi.[5]

Scindia was admitted to St. Stephen's College, Delhi, University of Delhi. He later transferred to Harvard College, the undergraduate liberal arts college of Harvard University, where he graduated with BA degree in Economics in 1993. In 2001, he received a Master of Business Administration from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.[6] [7] [8]

Scindia is a grandson of Jiwajirao Scindia, the last Maharaja of the princely state of Gwalior. His father Madhavrao was a politician and a minister in the government of Rajiv Gandhi. His mother, Madhavi Raje (Kiran Rajya Lakshmi Devi), hails from the royal family of Nepal. He is married to Priyadarshini Raje Scindia.[9]

Political career

Indian National Congress

On 30 September 2001, the Guna constituency fell vacant due to the death of Scindia's father, the sitting MP Madhavrao Scindia, in an aeroplane crash in Uttar Pradesh.[10] On 18 December, he formally joined the INC and pledged to uphold the "secular, liberal and social justice values" of his father.[11]

On 24 February, he won the by-election in Guna, defeating his nearest rival, Desh Raj Singh Yadav of the BJP, by a margin of approximately 450,000 votes.[12] He was re-elected in May 2004,[13] and was introduced to the Union Council of Ministers in 2007 as Minister of State for Communications and Information Technology. He was then re-elected in 2009 for a third consecutive term and became Minister of State for Commerce and Industry.[14]

He was appointed Minister of State for Communication in 2007 later as minister of state independent charge for Power in a cabinet reshuffle which drafted a number of younger politicians into the Indian cabinet, including two other scions of princely families, R. P. N. Singh and Jitendra Singh.[15]

He was among the richest ministers in the UPA government with assets valued at including investments in Indian and foreign securities worth over and jewellery worth over .[16] In 2010, he filed a legal claim to be the sole inheritor of the property belonging to his late father worth, however this was challenged in court by his aunts.[17]

He was tasked by the Indian Planning Commission with preventing a repetition of the July 2012 India blackout, the largest power outage in history, which affected over 620 million people (about 9% of the world population).[18] [19] [20] In May 2013, he claimed that checks and balances had been put in place to prevent any recurrence of grid collapse and that India would have the world's largest integrated grid by January 2014.[21]

In 2014, he was elected from Guna.[22] In 2019, he lost his seat to Krishna Pal Singh Yadav. In 2019, he was appointed as General Secretary in-charge for Uttar Pradesh West along with Priyanka Gandhi Vadra.[23]

Bharatiya Janata Party

Citing disgruntlement with the INC leadership, Scindia quit the Congress party on . The Congress party then released a statement claiming that he had been expelled for "anti-party activities." He joined the BJP on 11 March 2020.[24] [25] Other MLAs loyal to him also resigned from the INC and their MLA posts. This led to the 2020 Madhya Pradesh political crisis which in turn resulted in the resignation of Kamal Nath as chief minister on 23 March 2020. Nath's replacement, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, was sworn in as chief minister of Madhya Pradesh on 23 March 2020.[26]

On 19 June 2020, Scindia was elected a BJP Rajya Sabha MP from Madhya Pradesh.[27] On 7 July 2021, he was appointed as the Minister of Civil Aviation in Second Modi ministry after a cabinet reshuffle in July 2021.[28]

In February 2022, he was appointed Prime Minister Modi's special envoy to Romania to oversee the evacuation of Indian nationals in Ukraine resulting from the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine. As a part of Operation Ganga, he oversaw the evacuation efforts of students and Indian professionals through Bucharest and Suceava.[29]

Other roles

Scindia is the chairman of the regional Madhya Pradesh Cricket Association (MPCA).[30] After the spot fixing scandal in the Indian Premier League was made apparent and Sanjay Jagdale, a member of the MPCA, resigned from his post as secretary in the Board of Control for Cricket in India, Scindia spoke out against corruption in Indian cricket.[31]

He is the president of the Board of Governors of Scindia School, which was founded by his great-grandfather, Madho Rao Scindia, in 1897.[32] [33] He is a hereditary patron of Daly College, which was established in 1870 to educate the children of the royalty, nobility, and aristocracy of Central Indian princely states of the Marathas, Rajputs and Bundelas.[34] He is also the chairman of Madhav Institute of Technology and Science.[35]

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Notes and References

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