Jyotiraditya Scindia

Jyotiraditya Scindia
Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia (born 1

January 1971) is an Indian politician. He is
from the Scindia family that once ruled in
Gwalior and is a former Member of
Parliament, representing the Guna
constituency in the state of Madhya
Pradesh. He was a member of the Indian
National Congress political party and was
a Minister of State with independent
charge for Power in the cabinet of prime
minister Manmohan Singh from October
2012 until May 2014. He was MP from
2002 till 2019. [1][2]
Jyotiraditya Scindia
Scindia at the India Economic Summit in 2009
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha

In office
24 February 2002 – 23 May 2019
Preceded by Madhavrao Scindia

Succeeded by Dr. K. P. Yadav
Constituency Guna
General Secretary
All India Congress Committee for Uttar
Pradesh West
In office
23 January 2019 – 7 July 2019
President Rahul Gandhi

Minister of Power (Independent charge)
In office
28 October 2012 – 25 May 2014
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
Preceded by Veerappa Moily

Succeeded by Piyush Goyal
Personal details
Born 1 January 1971

Bombay, Maharashtra,
India
Political party Indian National

Congress (2001-2020)
Spouse(s) Priyadarshini Raje

Scindia
Children 2
Relatives Madhavrao Scindia

see Scindia family
Residence Jai Vilas Palace,
Gwalior, Madhya
Pradesh, India
New Delhi, India
Alma mater Harvard University

(A.B.)
Stanford University
(M.B.A.)
Website jyotiradityamscindia
.com
Early life and education

Scindia was born on 1 January 1971 in
Bombay. His parents were Madhavrao
Scindia and Madhavi Raje Scindia, former
rulers of Gwalior, a Maratha princely state.
He studied at Campion School in the city
and at The Doon School, Dehradun.[3] In
1993, he graduated with an A.B. degree in
Economics from Harvard College, the
undergraduate liberal arts college of
Harvard University. In 2001, he received an
M.B.A. from the Graduate School of
Business at Stanford University.[4][5]
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[6] 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.[7]
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 of
the Gaekwad family of Baroda, from the
Maratha Princely state.
Political career
On 30 September 2001, the Guna
constituency fell vacant due to the death
of his father the sitting MP Madhavrao
Scindia in an airplane crash in Uttar
Pradesh.[8][9] On 18 December, he formally
joined the Indian National Congress party
and pledged to uphold the "secular, liberal
and social justice values" of his father.[10]
On 19 January 2002, Scindia filed his

nomination paper to contest the upcoming
by-election from Guna constituency.[11][12]
On 24 February, he won the election and
defeated his nearest rival, Desh Raj Singh
Yadav of the Bharatiya Janata Party by a
margin of approximately 450,000 votes.[13]
He was re-elected in May 2004,[14] 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.[15]
Scindia was appointed Minister of State

for Power in November 2012 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.[16]
Scindia was among the richest ministers

in the UPA government with assets nearly
Rs. 25 crore ($5 million) including
investments in Indian and foreign
securities worth over ₹16 crore
(US$2 million) and jewellery worth over
₹5.7 crore (US$799,140).[17] He has filed a
legal claim to be the sole inheritor of the
property belonging to his late father worth
₹20,000 crore (US$3 billion), however this
has been challenged in court by his
aunts.[18]
Scindia 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,[19][20][21] In May 2013,
Scindia 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.[22]
In 2014, Scindia was elected from Guna

but lost that seat to Krishna Pal Singh
Yadav in 2019.[23]
He resigned from the Indian National
Congress[24] by giving his resignation to
the interim party president Sonia Gandhi.
The resignation dated 9 March 2020 was
made public on 10 March following which
the Indian National Congress released a
statement saying that he is expelled from
the party.[25]
Other roles
Scindia is chairman of the regional
Madhya Pradesh Cricket Association
(MPCA) in India.[26] After the spot fixing
scandal in the Indian Premier League
exploded in the media and Sanjay Jagdale,
a member of the MPCA resigned from his
job as secretary from the Board of Control
for Cricket in India, Scindia spoke out
against corruption in Indian cricket.[27]
Scindia is President of the Board of

Governors of Scindia School, Gwalior,
which was founded by his great-
grandfather, Madho Rao Scindia, in
1897.[28][29] He is also a hereditary patron
of Daly College, Indore, which was
established in 1882 to educate the
children of the royalty, nobility and
aristocracy of Central Indian princely
states.[30]
Ancestry
[31]

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Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia (born 1

Scindia at the India Economic Summit in 2009

Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha

Preceded by Madhavrao Scindia

President Rahul Gandhi

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh

Preceded by Veerappa Moily

Born 1 January 1971

Political party Indian National

Spouse(s) Priyadarshini Raje

Relatives Madhavrao Scindia

Alma mater Harvard University

Early life and education

His mother Madhavi Raje Scindia (Kiran

On 19 January 2002, Scindia ﬁled his

He was re-elected in May 2004,[14] and

Scindia was appointed Minister of State

Scindia was among the richest ministers

Scindia was tasked by the Indian Planning

In 2014, Scindia was elected from Guna

Scindia is President of the Board of

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