Jyotiraditya Scindia

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{{Short description|Indian politician}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Jyotiraditya Scindia
| image = The Minister of State for Commerce and Industry, Shri Jyotiraditya Scindia participating in panel discussion at the World Economic Forum, at Rio de Janeiro on April 28, 2011.jpg
| image_size = 300px
| caption =
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1971|1|1|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Mumbai]], [[Maharashtra]], [[India]]
| residence = [[Jai Vilas Palace]], [[Gwalior]], [[Madhya Pradesh]], India<br />[[New Delhi]], India
| office = [[Ministry of Civil Aviation (India)|Minister of Civil Aviation]]
| term_start = 7 July 2021
| primeminister = [[Narendra Modi]]
| term_end =
| predecessor = [[Hardeep Singh Puri]]
| successor =

| office1 = [[Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha]]
| term_start1 = 20 June 2020
| term_end1 =
| constituency1 = [[List of Rajya Sabha members from Madhya Pradesh|Madhya Pradesh]]
| predecessor1 = [[Satyanarayan Jatiya]]
| successor1 = Incumbent
| office3 = [[Ministry of Power (India)|Minister of State (Independent charge) for Power and corporate
]]
| primeminister3 = [[Manmohan Singh]]
| term_start3 = 28 October 2012
| term_end3 = 26 May 2014
| predecessor3 = [[Veerappa Moily]]
| successor3 = [[Piyush Goyal]]
| constituency2 = [[Guna (Lok Sabha Constituency)|Guna]]
| office2 = [[Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha]]
| term_start2 = 24 February 2002
| term_end2 = 23 May 2019
| predecessor2 = [[Madhavrao Scindia]]
| successor2 = [[Krishna Pal Singh Yadav|Dr. K. P. Yadav]]
| president2 =
| father = [[Madhavrao Scindia]]
| relatives = ''See [[Scindia family]]''
| party = [[Bharatiya Janata Party]] <br />(2020–present)
| alma_mater = [[Harvard University]] ([[B.A.]])<br />[[Stanford University]] ([[M.B.A.]])
| spouse = {{marriage|[[Priyadarshini Raje Scindia]]|1994}}
| children = 2
| otherparty = [[Indian National Congress]] <br />(2001–2020)
| website =
| footnotes =
}}

'''Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia''' (born 1 January 1971) is an [[Indian politician]] who serves as the [[Ministry of Civil Aviation (India)|Minister of Civil Aviation]]. <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/jyotiraditya-scindia-is-india-s-new-civil-aviation-minister-1825188-2021-07-07|title=Jyotiraditya Scindia is India's new Civil Aviation Minister|website=India Today|access-date=2021-07-07}}</ref> He is a [[Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha|Member of Parliament]] in the [[Rajya Sabha]] representing the State of [[Madhya Pradesh]].

He is a former [[16th Lok Sabha|Member of Parliament]] in the [[Lok Sabha]], representing the [[Guna (Lok Sabha constituency)|Guna constituency]] in Madhya Pradesh until his defeat in the [[2019 Indian general election]]. He is a former member of the [[Indian National Congress]] and presently a member of the [[Bharatiya Janata Party]].

While a member of the INC, Scindia was a Minister of State with independent charge for various ministry between 2007 to 2014 in the cabinet of prime minister [[Manmohan Singh]] from October 2012 until May 2014. In March 2020, he severed all ties with [[Indian National Congress|Congress]] and joined [[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]].

Scindia is the son of the late Indian politician, [[Madhavrao Scindia]], and a grandson of the last ruler of the [[princely state]] of [[Gwalior State|Gwalior]] during the [[British Raj]] in India.

==Early life and education==
Scindia was born on 1 January 1971 in [[Mumbai|Bombay]] to [[Madhavrao Scindia]] and Madhavi Raje Scindia. He belong to the Scindia dynasty of Gwalior.<ref>{{Cite web|last1=M|first1=Dilip|last2=al|date=2019-03-12|title=Congress has never been a party of OBCs, but something's changing now|url=https://theprint.in/opinion/congress-has-never-been-a-party-of-obcs-but-somethings-changing-now/204518/|access-date=2020-07-10|website=ThePrint|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-03-14|title=Diggy-Jyoti feud may have roots in history|url=https://www.sundayguardianlive.com/news/diggy-jyoti-feud-may-roots-history|access-date=2020-07-10|website=The Sunday Guardian Live|language=en-US}}</ref> He was educated at [[Campion School, Mumbai]] and at [[The Doon School]], [[Dehradun]].<ref>{{cite news|title=The evolution of Honorable Shri. Jyotiraditya Scindia |url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/delhi-times/the-evolution-of-jyotiraditya-scindia/articleshow/11710390.cms|publisher= [[Times of India]]|date= 2002-06-02|access-date=2009-06-21}}</ref>

Scindia 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 a [[Master of Business Administration]] from the [[Stanford Graduate School of Business]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.commerce.nic.in/bio/stateminister.asp|title=Honorable Shri. Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia - Minister of State for Commerce & Industry|publisher=Department of Commerce, Government of India|access-date=2011-03-08|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721163607/http://www.commerce.nic.in/bio/stateminister.asp|archive-date=21 July 2011|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dipp.nic.in/CV_MOS.htm|title=Jyotiraditya M. Scindia - Minister of State for Commerce & Industry|publisher=Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion, Government of India|access-date=2011-03-08|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110322024448/http://www.dipp.nic.in/CV_MOS.htm|archive-date=22 March 2011|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

Scindia is a grandson of [[Jivajirao Scindia]], the last Maharaja of the [[princely state]] of [[Gwalior State|Gwalior]]. His father [[Madhavrao Scindia]] was an Indian politician and a minister in the government of [[Rajiv Gandhi]]. Scindia's mother is Madhavi Raje Scindia (Kiran Rajya Lakshmi Devi). He is married to [[Priyadarshini Raje Scindia]].

==Political career==
===Early political career===
[[File:Shri Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia taking charge as Minister of State for Communications & Information Technology, in New Delhi on April 09, 2008.jpg|thumb|Scindia in 2008 as Minister of State for Communications & Information Technology|left]]

On 30 September 2001, the Guna constituency fell vacant due to the death of Scindia's father the sitting MP Madhavrao Scindia in an airplane crash in [[Uttar Pradesh]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Madhavrao Scindia Dies In Plane Crash |url=https://www.outlookindia.com/website/story/madhavrao-scindia-dies-in-plane-crash/213264 |publisher=[[Outlook (Indian magazine)|Outlook]] |access-date=14 February 2019 |date=30 September 2001}}</ref> On 18 December, he formally joined the INC and pledged to uphold the "secular, liberal and social justice values" of his father.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Prasad |first1=K.V. |title=Like father, like son |url=https://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/2001/12/18/stories/2001121801521200.htm |work=[[The Hindu]] |access-date=14 February 2019 |date=18 December 2001}}{{dead link|date=April 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>

On 24 February, Scindia won the [[by-election]] in Guna, defeating his nearest rival, Desh Raj Singh Yadav of the BJP, by a margin of approximately 450,000 votes.<ref>{{cite web |title=Jyotiraditya Scindia wins Guna by 4.5 lakh votes |url=https://www.rediff.com/election/2002/feb/24_bye_agen_rep_10.htm |work=Rediff.com |access-date=14 February 2019 |date=24 February 2002}}</ref> He was re-elected in May 2004,<ref>{{cite web |title=Jyotiraditya Scindia wins Guna by 4.5 lakh votes |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/cover-story/story/20040524-lok-sabha-polls-2004-power-families-in-parliament-790044-2004-05-24|publisher=India Today.com |access-date=17 September 2019 |date=24 May 2004}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web |title=Jyotiraditya Scindia became Minister of State for Commerce and Industry.|url=https://www.business-standard.com/topic/jyotiraditya-scindia|publisher=business.standard.com |access-date=17 September 2019}}</ref>

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 (INC politician)|Jitendra Singh]].<ref>{{cite news|author=Hartosh Singh Baal|title=The Princelings of India|publisher=International Herald Tribune|date=5 November 2012|url=http://latitude.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/05/the-princelings-of-indias-congress-party}}</ref>

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 {{INRConvert|16|c|0}} and jewellery worth over {{INRConvert|5.7|c|0}}.<ref name=scindia-assets1>{{cite web|title=Patel, Scindia among richest ministers in India|date=10 September 2010|publisher=Rediff Business|url=http://www.rediff.com/money/report/patel-scindia-among-richest-ministers-in-india/20100910.htm}}</ref> In 2010, he filed a legal claim to be the sole inheritor of the property belonging to his late father worth {{INRConvert|20000|c|0}}, however this was challenged in court by his aunts.<ref name=scindia-assets2>{{cite web|title=Scindia Feud: Castles in the heir|author=Ambreesh Mishra|date = 13 November 2010|publisher=India Today Magazine|url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/scindia-feud-castle-in-the-heir/1/119732.html}}</ref>{{clarify|reason= so what happened? this is a decade ago|date=July 2020}}

Scindia was tasked by the [[Planning Commission (India)|Indian Planning Commission]] with preventing a repetition of the [[July 2012 India blackout]], the [[List of power outages|largest power outage in history]], which affected over 620 million people, about 9% of the world population,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/jul/31/india-blackout-electricity-power-cuts|title=India blackouts leave 700 million without power|date=31 July 2012|author=Helen Pidd|access-date=31 July 2012|work=The Guardian}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=India's Mass Power Failure Worst Ever in World History |url=http://news.outlookindia.com/items.aspx?artid=770631 |work=Outlook |agency=Press Trust of India |date=1 August 2012 |access-date=1 August 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120801052804/http://news.outlookindia.com/items.aspx?artid=770631 |archive-date= 1 August 2012 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Grid safety tops Montek Singh Ahluwalia's wish list for Jyotiraditya Scindia|author=Sanjay Datta|date=20 November 2012|url=http://m.economictimes.com/news/news-by-industry/energy/power/grid-safety-tops-montek-singh-ahluwalias-wish-list-for-jyotiraditya-scindia/articleshow/17291823.cms}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite news|title=India's power grid set to be world's largest|author=Anupama Airy|publisher=Hindustan Times|date=13 May 2013|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/business-news/WorldEconomy/India-s-power-grid-set-to-be-world-s-largest/Article1-1059607.aspx|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130618012255/http://www.hindustantimes.com/business-news/WorldEconomy/India-s-power-grid-set-to-be-world-s-largest/Article1-1059607.aspx|archive-date=18 June 2013|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

In 2014, Scindia was elected from Guna<ref>{{cite news|title=Jyotiraditya Scindia wins Guna seat|publisher=Economic Times|date=16 May 2014|url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/2014-lok-sabha-elections-results-jyotiraditya-scindia-wins-guna-seat/articleshow/35217932.cms}}</ref> but lost that seat to [[Krishna Pal Singh Yadav]] in 2019.<ref>{{cite news |title=Guna Election Results 2019 Live Updates: Krishna Pal Singh of BJP Wins |url=https://www.news18.com/news/politics/guna-election-results-2019-live-updates-winner-loser-leading-trailing-2154581.html |work=News18 |date=23 May 2019 |access-date=2019-09-14}}</ref>

===Bharatiya Janata Party===
Citing disgruntlement with the INC leadership especially with Former [[Congress President]] [[Rahul Gandhi]], he quit the party on {{dts|10 March 2020}} to join the BJP. The party then released a statement claiming that he had been expelled for "anti-party activities". He later joined the BJP on 11 March 2020.<ref>{{cite news|title=Stung by Scindia resignation congress claims it expelled guna royal for anti party activities|publisher= News18|date=10 March 2020|url=https://www.news18.com/news/politics/stung-by-scindias-resignation-congress-claims-it-expelled-guna-royal-for-anti-party-activities-2532049.html}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Jyotiraditya Scindia resigns from congress|author=Deepak Upadhyay|publisher=Live Mint |date=10 March 2020|url=https://www.livemint.com/news/india/mp-political-crisis-jyotiraditya-scindia-meets-pm-narendra-modi-amit-shah-11583822170775.html}}</ref> Other MLAs loyal to him also resigned from the INC and their MLA posts that led [[2020 Madhya Pradesh political crisis]] which resulted in the resignation of [[Kamal Nath]] as [[Chief Minister (India)|Chief Minister]] on 23 March 2020.As a result of Political Crisis [[Shivraj Singh Chouhan]] was sworn as [[Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh]] on 23 March 2020.

On 19 June 2020, Scindia was elected a BJP [[Rajya Sabha]] MP from Madhya Pradesh.<ref>{{cite news|title=Jyotiraditya Scindia, Digvijaya Singh among 19 elected to Rajya Sabha|work=[[The Hindu]]|date=19 June 2020|url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/rajya-sabha-elections-2020-results/article31871383.ece}}</ref> On 7 July 2021, Scindia was appointed as the [[Ministry of Civil Aviation (India)|Minister of Civil Aviation]] in [[Second Modi ministry]] after a cabinet reshuffle in July 2021.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/modi-cabinet-rejig-full-list-of-new-ministers-1825111-2021-07-07|title=Modi cabinet rejig: Full list of new ministers|website=India Today|access-date=2021-07-07}}</ref>

==Other roles==
[[File:The Scindia School.jpg|thumb|The Scindia School of which Jyotiraditya is President of the Board of Governors]]

Scindia is chairman of the regional [[Madhya Pradesh Cricket Association]] (MPCA) in India.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mpcaonline.com/details.php?bWVudT1tYW5hZ2luZ19jb21taXR0ZWVzLnBocA== |title=MPCA, Madhya Pradesh Cricket Association, Indore | Cricket in Madhya Pradesh | Cricket | Indore | MPCA | CK Naidu | Holkar Cricket | Holkar Stadium |publisher=Mpcaonline.com |access-date=2013-07-18}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://zeenews.india.com/sports/cricket/scindia-calls-for-time-frame-to-complete-spot-fixing-enquiry_763971.html|title=Scindia calls for time-frame to complete spot-fixing enquiry|publisher=Z-News, India|date = 24 June 2013}}</ref>

Scindia is President of the Board of Governors of [[Scindia School]], Gwalior, which was founded by his great-grandfather, [[Madho Rao Scindia]], in 1897.<ref>{{cite news |title=Public schools in India woo British Asian pupils|author=Amit Roy|date=1 January 2006|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/4199939/Public-schools-in-India-woo-British-Asian-pupils.html|publisher=The Telegraph}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=The Scindia School: Fees and Funding|year=2013|url=http://www.scindia.edu/pros-students.php?CId=23|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131101142813/http://www.scindia.edu/pros-students.php?CId=23|archive-date=1 November 2013|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.dalycollege.org/patrons.html|title=Patrons|website=Daly college|access-date=9 September 2019}}</ref>

Scindia is chairman of [[Madhav Institute of Technology and Science]] one of the most prominent Engineering College of Gwalior Chambal Region which was founded in 1957.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://mitsgwalior.in/BOG.php|title=Chairman|website=MITS Gwalior|access-date=28 May 2020}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[Jai Vilas Mahal]]

==References==
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==External links==
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* [https://archive.india.gov.in/govt/loksabhampbiodata.php?mpcode=3958 Members of Fourteenth Lok Sabha - Parliament of India website]

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