21 Facts About Jyotiraditya Scindia

Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia was born on 1 January 1971 and is an Indian politician who serves as the Minister of Civil Aviation, Government of India in the Second Modi Ministry since 2021.

Jyotiraditya Scindia is a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha representing the State of Madhya Pradesh since 2020.

Jyotiraditya Scindia is a former 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.

Jyotiraditya Scindia is former member of the Indian National Congress from 2001 to 2020 and presently a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party since 2020.

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.

Jyotiraditya Scindia was educated at Campion School, Mumbai and at The Doon School, Dehradun.

Jyotiraditya Scindia was admitted to St Stephen's College, Delhi, University of Delhi.

Jyotiraditya Scindia later transferred to Harvard College, the undergraduate liberal arts college of Harvard University, where he graduated with BA degree in Economics in 1993.

Jyotiraditya Scindia is a grandson of Jivajirao Jyotiraditya Scindia, the last Maharaja of the princely state of Gwalior.

Jyotiraditya Scindia's father Madhavrao Scindia was an Indian politician and a minister in the government of Rajiv Gandhi.

Jyotiraditya Scindia's mother is Madhavi Raje Jyotiraditya Scindia.

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.

Jyotiraditya Scindia was then re-elected in 2009 for a third consecutive term and became Minister of State for Commerce and Industry.

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.

In May 2013, Jyotiraditya 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.

In 2014, Jyotiraditya Scindia was elected from Guna but lost his seat to Krishna Pal Singh Yadav.

On 19 June 2020, Jyotiraditya Scindia was elected a BJP Rajya Sabha MP from Madhya Pradesh.

On 7 July 2021, Jyotiraditya Scindia was appointed as the Minister of Civil Aviation in Second Modi ministry after a cabinet reshuffle in July 2021.

In February 2022, Jyotiraditya Scindia was appointed PM Modi's special envoy to Romania to oversee the evacuation of Indian nationals in Ukraine resulting from during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Jyotiraditya Scindia is chairman of the regional Madhya Pradesh Cricket Association.

Jyotiraditya Scindia is chairman of Madhav Institute of Technology and Science.