Jyotiraditya Scindia
Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia (born 1 January 1971) is an Indian politician. He belongs to the House of Scindia that once ruled in Gwalior and is a former Member of Parliament, representing the Guna constituency in the state of Madhya Pradesh. He is a former member of the Indian National Congress and candidate of the Bharatiya Janata Party for the 2020 Indian Rajya Sabha elections from Madhya Pradesh.
In Indian National Congress, he was a Minister of State with independent charge for Power in the cabinet of prime minister Manmohan Singh from October 2012 until May 2014. Citing disgruntlement with the top leadership of Congress, he quit the party on 10 March 2020 to join BJP on following day. After his joining in Bharatiya Janata Party, Scindia supported MLAs also resigned from Congress and also as MLAs. 2020 Madhya Pradesh political crisis also made Kamal Nath to resign as CM.
Scindia was born on 1 January 1971 in Bombay to Madhavrao Scindia and Madhavi Raje Scindia, former rulers of Gwalior, a Maratha princely state. He belongs to Kurmi caste and was educated at Campion School, Mumbai and at The Doon School, Dehradun.
He 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 Master of Business Administration from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University.
Scindia is a grandson of Jivajirao Scindia, the last Maharaja of the princely state of Gwalior, who, although joining the Dominion of India in 1947, was allowed his former titles and privileges, including an annual remuneration, called the privy purse. Upon his death in 1961, his son, Madhavrao Scindia (Jyotiraditya's father) became the last titular Maharajah of Gwalior, as the 26th amendment to the Constitution of India promulgated in 1971, the Government of India abolished all official symbols of princely India, including titles, privileges, and privy purses.
His mother Madhavi Raje Scindia (Kiran Rajya Lakshmi Devi) was great-granddaughter of Prime Minister of Nepal and Maharaja of Kaski and Lamjung Juddha Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana, a patrilineal descendant of Sardar Ramakrishna Kunwar of Gorkha. He is married to Priyadarshini Raje Scindia (nee Gaekwad) of the Gaekwad family of Baroda, from the Maratha Princely state. His grandmother Vijayraje Scindia was among the BJP's founder members, with his aunts Vasundhara Raje and Yashodhara Raje are party members. He has a son, Mahanaaryaman Jyotiraditya Scindia (b.November 17,1995) and a daughter, Ananya Raje Scindia (b.March 31,2002).
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