1. Madhavrao Jiwajirao Scindia was an Indian politician and minister in the Government of India.
19 Facts About Madhavrao Scindia
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Madhavrao Scindia was a member of the Indian National Congress.
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Madhavrao Scindia was viewed as a potential future prime ministerial candidate before the 1999 Lok Sabha elections in the aftermath of the controversy over Sonia Gandhi's foreign origin.
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Madhavrao Scindia married Madhavi Raje Scindia, a daughter of army general of Madhesh Province, Nepal, and a 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.
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Madhavrao Scindia underwent his schooling in Madhavrao Scindia School, Gwalior and thereafter went for higher studies in Winchester College and at New College, Oxford.
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On his return from the UK, Madhavrao Scindia followed the political tradition set by his mother Vijaya Raje Madhavrao Scindia by joining politics.
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Madhavrao Scindia was elected to the Lok Sabha in 1971 from the Guna constituency on a Bharatiya Jana Sangh ticket.
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Madhavrao Scindia won for the first time from Guna constituency at the age of 26.
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Madhavrao Scindia contested the election on the ticket of Bharatiya Jana Sangh, which his family had long patronised.
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Madhavrao Scindia contested from Guna constituency as an independent candidate and won the seat a second time in spite of the wave in favour of the Janata Party.
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Madhavrao Scindia made his mark as an excellent administrator during his stint as Railways Minister in the Rajiv Gandhi Ministry.
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Madhavrao Scindia faced a turbulent period of agitation by the staff of the domestic carrier, Indian Airlines, and as part of a strategy of disciplining the workforce, he leased a number of aircraft from Russia.
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Early in 1992 one of these aircraft crashed, though without any loss of life, and Madhavrao Scindia promptly submitted his resignation.
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Madhavrao Scindia was later reinducted into the Cabinet in 1995 as Minister for Human Resource Development.
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Madhavrao Scindia is credited with setting up the Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management at Gwalior as an institution of repute, which got renamed after Atal Bihari Vajpayee as ABV-IIITM.
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Madhavrao Scindia was appointed president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India, a post he held until his 3-year term expired in 1993.
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Madhavrao Scindia won the 1998 Lok Sabha election from Guna.
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Madhavrao Scindia died at the age of 56, in a plane crash in Motta village, which is on the outskirts of Mainpuri district of Uttar Pradesh, on 30 September 2001.
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The remains of Madhavrao Scindia were identified by his family, with the Goddess Durga locket that he always used to wear.