1. Jyotiraditya Scindia 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.
20 Facts About Jyotiraditya Scindia
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Jyotiraditya Scindia 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.
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Jyotiraditya Scindia is a former member of the Indian National Congress from 2001 to 2020 and a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party since 2020.
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Jyotiraditya Scindia 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.
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Jyotiraditya Scindia was educated at Campion School, Mumbai and at The Doon School, Dehradun.
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At Doon School, Jyotiraditya Scindia was a contemporary of Rahul Gandhi.
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Jyotiraditya Scindia later went to Harvard College, the undergraduate liberal arts college of Harvard University, where he graduated with BA degree in Economics in 1993.
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Jyotiraditya Scindia is a grandson of Jiwajirao Jyotiraditya Scindia, the last Maharaja of the princely state of Gwalior.
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Jyotiraditya Scindia's father Madhavrao was a politician and a minister in the government of Rajiv Gandhi.
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Jyotiraditya Scindia is married to Priyadarshini Raje Scindia who studied at Fort Convent School, Mumbai and later Sophia College.
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Jyotiraditya Scindia was re-elected in May 2004, and was introduced to the Union Council of Ministers in 2007 as Minister of State for Communications and Information Technology.
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Jyotiraditya Scindia was then re-elected in 2009 for a third consecutive term and became Minister of State for Commerce and Industry.
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Jyotiraditya Scindia 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.
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Jyotiraditya Scindia was among the richest ministers in the UPA government with assets valued at 25 crore including investments in Indian and foreign securities worth over 16 crore and jewellery worth over 5.7 crore.
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Jyotiraditya 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.
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On 19 June 2020, Jyotiraditya Scindia was elected a BJP Rajya Sabha MP from Madhya Pradesh.
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Jyotiraditya Scindia is the chairman of the regional Madhya Pradesh Cricket Association.
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Jyotiraditya Scindia is the president of the Board of Governors of Scindia School, which was founded by his great-grandfather, Madho Rao Scindia, in 1897.
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Jyotiraditya Scindia 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.
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Jyotiraditya Scindia is the chairman of Madhav Institute of Technology and Science.