Bhopal, The <keyword id="21082883" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="scindias" source="keywords">Scindias</keyword>, the influential members of the erstwhile royal family of Gwalior, have moved effortlessly between different political parties when it comes to fighting electoral battles on their home turf and Union minister Jyotiraditya <keyword id="19905342" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="scindia" source="keywords">Scindia</keyword> will carry forward this tradition when he files his nomination as the BJP candidate from the Guna <keyword id="19895394" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="lok-sabha" source="keywords">Lok Sabha</keyword> seat in Madhya Pradesh. Five years after losing unexpectedly from Guna as the Congress candidate, Jyotiraditya Scindia, representing the current generation of the family in MP's politics, is back in the fray in his backyard, but this time as the nominee of his erstwhile political rival and with a different election symbol against his name on the EVM. The 53-year-old politician is the grandson of one of the BJP founders, Vijaya Raje Scindia, and son of former Union minister the late Madhavrao Scindia. The Guna Lok Sabha seat, part of the Scindias' home turf which also includes Gwalior, is spread across eight assembly seats in Guna, Shivpuri and Ashok Nagar districts. The Congress, looking to settle scores with Jyotiraditya Scindia in the poll fray after it lost its government in Madhya Pradesh following his exit exactly four years ago, is yet to name its candidate from Guna. It was a rare electoral shock for former Gwalior royals when the Union Minister for Civil Aviation faced defeat in 2019 at the hands of the BJP candidate and his old loyalist, KP Yadav, by a margin of around 1.26 Lakh votes. In 2024, Scindia is again testing electoral waters, but under the banner of a different party - the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) - the political home to his parental aunts - former Rajasthan Chief Minister <keyword id="21082885" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="vasundhara-raje-scindia" source="keywords">Vasundhara Raje Scindia</keyword> and ex-MP minister <keyword id="21082884" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="yashodhara-raje" source="keywords">Yashodhara Raje</keyword>. But the Guna Lok Sabha constituency's history suggested the Scindias have never fought their first and last elections from the same party. The Union minister's grandmother, <keyword id="21082886" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="rajmata-vijaya-raje-scindia" source="keywords">Rajmata Vijaya Raje Scindia</keyword>, contested her first election from the seat in 1957 on a Congress ticket and won. She contested as the Swatantra Party nominee in 1967 then from the BJP in 1989. His father Madhavrao Scindia contested his first election from Guna on a Bharatiya Jan Sangh (BJS) ticket in 1971 and fought his last poll in 1999 as the Congress nominee before his death in a plane crash near New Delhi in 2001. The BJS is considered the forerunner of the BJP. Senior journalist, author and political analyst <keyword id="20445085" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="rasheed-kidwai" source="keywords">Rasheed Kidwai</keyword> says the Scindias' political leanings seem to be settling down now. "After decades of consciously choosing divergent political parties, the house of Scindias is finally settling down as per their past and ideological leanings. The Sangh, Hindutva and right-wing has always been Scindia flavour in the monarchical era," Kidwai noted. The Guna parliamentary seat was represented by Rajmata Scindia for 6 times, while her son Madhavrao Scindia won it on four occasions. Besides Guna, Rajmata Scindia represented the Gwalior Lok Sabha seat, part of the family turf, once. Madhavrao Scindia was elected five times from Gwalior, once as the candidate of the Madhya Pradesh Vikas Congress, an outfit floated by him. Rajmata Scindia's daughter Yashodhara Raje also represented the Gwalior seat in the Lok Sabha twice for the BJP. Jyotiraditya Scindia has represented the Guna seat four times between 2002 and 2014, including after winning in a bypoll. A year after his defeat, he joined the BJP in March 2020 along with 22 Congress MLAs, leading to the collapse of the Kamal Nath-led government in Madhya Pradesh. The defeat of Jyotiraditya Scindia in 2019 was the second setback for the Scindias in the Lok Sabha elections. In 1984, the Union minister's aunt and former Rajasthan CM <keyword id="20004780" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="vasundhara-raje" source="keywords">Vasundhara Raje</keyword> had faced defeat as the BJP candidate from the Bhind Lok Sabha seat. She was defeated by Congress candidate <keyword id="21082887" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="krishna-singh-judeo" source="keywords">Krishna Singh Judeo</keyword>, who belongs to the erstwhile royal family of Datia. The Guna Lok Sabha constituency has more than 18.80 lakh voters and it will go to polls in the third phase on May 7.

The Scindias: Moving seamlessly between parties in different elections on their home turf

<ul><li><keyword id="29632" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Jyotiraditya-Scindia">Jyotiraditya Scindia</keyword> joins Bharatiya Janata Party in the presence of BJP national president J P Nadda today (March 11).</li><li>This Holi surprise came in after Scindia met Union <keyword id="7706627" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="home-minister-amit-shah">home minister Amit Shah</keyword> on Tuesday (March 10) and Prime Minister Narendra Modi at his residence. </li><li>Following the meeting, Scindia released the letter to Congress President Sonia Gandhi where he announced his exit, on March 9. </li></ul>Jyotiraditya Scindia joined Bharatiya Janata Party in the presence of BJP national president J P Nadda today (March 11). Soon after joining BJP, Scindia said his dreams were shattered in Congress providing an insight into the reasons behind jumping parties. Scindia who lost his MP seat in 2019 election from Guna in Madhya Pradesh, ended his 18 year association with Congress party. This Holi-day surprise came in after Scindia met Union home minister <keyword id="6355521" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="amit-shah">Amit Shah</keyword> on Tuesday (March 10) and Prime Minister Narendra Modi at his residence. Following the meeting, Scindia released the letter to Congress President Sonia Gandhi where he announced his exit, on March 9. Shortly after his resignation, 19 Congress MLAs sent their letters of resignation and Raj Bhavan sources said 22 MLAs had already resigned by 5.30 p.m. on Tuesday - leading the Kamal Nath-led Madhya Pradesh government into a crisis mode. 'Ominous phase' forced BJP to postpone Scindia's induction The stage was set and decks were cleared for Jyotiraditya Scindia's induction into the BJP at 12.30 p.m., but no leaders turned up at the given time. Sources say the induction has been delayed due to the "Rahu Kal", a phase considered ominous. On Wednesday afternoon, the BJP media cell sent a message that read, "An Eminent personality will join the BJP in the presence of BJP National President Shri J.P. Nadda today (Wednesday) March 11, 12:30 p.m. at BJP HQ, 6 A, DDU Marg, New Delhi." Whenever, a high profile joining takes place, the BJP media cell refers to them as 'eminent citizens'. But at 12.30 p.m., with a packed media auditorium, none of the BJP leaders turned up and neither did Scindia. While it was speculated that the Lok Sabha which was in session, to be the reason, soon it too got adjourned. Yet none of the BJP leaders turned up.Sources in the BJP suggest that the BJP was told later about the Rahu Kal, an ominous phase, that starts at 12.30 p.m. Hence, the party which is very sensitive to such astrological findings, decided to postpone it by an hour and thirty minutes, till the phase was over. Scindia comes home to his BJP roots While it was an unexpected turn for the 49-year-old who had been with Congress party for 18 years, it could also be termed a homecoming for the former royals of Gwalior. In fact, it would end the political divide that is a part of the family. Scindia’s aunt and former minister in a BJP-led government in the state earlier, Yashodhara Raje Scindia is overjoyed at the move. "He must have taken the decision keeping the face of Rajmata in mind," she said. The youngest daughter of Rajmata Vijaya Raje Scindia of Gwalior said that this "new chapter" will respect the "aspirations" of people. Another aunt of his, Vasundhara Raje was also the former CM of Rajasthan and a part of BJP The immensely influential and popular family had chosen politics after they British-era rule ended. Rajmata Vijaya Raje Scindia, the grandmother of Jyotiraditya Scindia was a part of the Jan Sangh, the predecessor of BJP in its current form. She was also a co-founder of the Saffron party that is in power at the Centre today. The Queen mother who was against Congress Rajmata Scindia joined the Bharatiya Jan Sangh before after a short stint in the C. Rajagopalachari-led Swatantra Party, which too was formed as a revolt against Jawaharlal Nehru. Since then, she has always been anti-Congress and was even sent to jail during the emergency period in the 1970s, declared by former PM Indira Gandhi. Out of her four daughters and a son, three had become popular in politics -- Madhavrao Scindia, the father of Jyotiraditya Scindia; Vasundhara Raje and Yashodhara Raje. Madhavrao Scindia, the father of Jyotiradita Sciendia too started his political career via Jan Sangh, but soon deviated to Congress before trying his hands as an independent. Since the 1980s, Madhavrao Scindia became a part of the Congress family. At one point, he became so powerful that he even challenged Sonia Gandhi on her foreign origin. Sadly, he met an untimely death in a plane crash in September 2001. Ever since, his son Jyotiraditya Scindia took his place in Madhya Pradesh politics. However, many political pundits believe that he was under a "shadow" of Rahul Gandhi, the former president of the party. It could have been one of the many issues that led to his exit. See also: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/politics/india/news/former-congress-mp-jyotiraditya-scindia-to-join-the-bjp-at-the-party-headquarters/articleshow/74571552.cms">Former Congress MP Jyotiraditya Scindia to join the BJP at the party headquarters</a>

Jyotiraditya Scindia joins BJP and says his dreams were shattered in Congress

Twenty eight ministers have been sworn in at a ceremony at the Raj Bhavan in Bhopal on Thursday morning. Governor Anandiben Patel administered the oath of office and secrecy to the new ministers. Out of 28 ministers 20 are cabinet and 8 are state ministers. Those who have been sworn in include Gopal Bhargava, Vijay Shah, Jagdish Deora, Bisahu Lal Singh, Yashodhara Raje Scindia, Bhupendra Singh, Edal Singh Kansana, Brijendra Pratap Singh, Vishwas Sarang, Imrati Devi, Prabhuram Chaudhary, Mahendra Singh Sisodia, Pradyuman Singh Tomar, Prem Singh Patel, Om Prakash Saklecha, Usha Thakur, Arvind Bhadoria, Mohan Yadav, Hardeep Singh Dung, Rajyavardhan Singh Dittigaon were sworn in. Those present on the occasion include Chief Minister <keyword id="67701" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Shivraj-Singh-Chauhan">Shivraj Singh Chauhan</keyword>, Union Minister Narendra Singh Tomar, former Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia, BJP State President Vishnu Dutt Sharma among others. Now the total number of ministers has increased to 33 with 28 members taking oath in the state cabinet. The State ministers who were sworn in include Bharat Singh Kushwaha, Inder Singh Parmar, Ramkhilavan Patel, Ram Kishor Kanvera, Brijendra Singh Yadav, Girraj Dandotia, Suresh Dhakad and O.P.S. Bhadoria. Out of the 28 ministers who were sworn in, 11 are Scindia loyalists who joined the BJP along with Jyotiraditya Scindia in March. The cabinet expansion has been pending since March. The Shivraj government has been functioning with only five ministers since mid-April.

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Madhya Pradesh has turned on the business mode. In a news report by The Economic Times, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan while addressing a meeting of Investment Promotion Committee at Mantralaya has proposed to will establish Investment Promotion Desk in the East Asian nations with an aim to facilitate investment from those countries. 
 
Chouhan asked the authorities concerned to chalk out detailed plans to encourage investments from the East Asian countries. 
 
He said the prospective investors and their associations or bodies must be apprised of the initiatives taken under the ease of doing business in the state. They should be informed about single-door policy. 
 
On the occasion, secretary to Chief Minister, Hariranjan Rao, informed that Taiwan and other east Asian countries are exploring investment opportunities in India, specially in potential destinations like Madhya Pradesh. 
 
The policy initiatives specially in Electronics Manufacturing are attracting them. Country's first Printed Circuit Board (PCB) cluster for electronic products is coming up at Gwalior. 
 
Suggestions about setting up of centres for learning Chinese, translating Industrial policies into Chinese and Oriental Culture Centre were also given at the meeting, he said. 
 
The news report further suggests, the policy for promotion of micro, small and medium industries was endorsed at the meeting. The proposed policy talks about giving capital subsidy for micro, small and medium industries, compensating the infrastructure expenses and exempting them from various taxes and fees. 
 
Minister for Commerce and Industries Yashodhara Raje Scindia, Minister for Public Relations Rajendra Shukla and Minister for Transport and Science and Technology Bhupendra Singh, among others attended the meeting. 
 
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