Jyotiraditya Scindia

In Indian National Congress, he was a Minister of State with independent charge for Power in the cabinet of prime minister Manmohan Singh from October 2012 until May 2014. Citing disgruntlement with the top leadership of Congress, he quit the party on 10 March 2020 to join BJP on following day. After his joining in Bharatiya Janata Party, Scindia supported MLAs also resigned from Congress and also as MLAs. 2020 Madhya Pradesh political crisis also made Kamal Nath to resign as CM.

He resigned from the Indian National Congress 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 claiming that he is expelled from the party for "anti-party activities". He joined the Bharatiya Janata Party on 11 March 2020.

In 2014, Scindia was elected from Guna but lost that seat to Krishna Pal Singh Yadav in 2019.

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.

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, 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.

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

On 19 January 2002, Scindia filed his nomination paper to contest the upcoming by-election from Guna constituency. 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.

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. 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.

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 (nee Gaekwad) of the Gaekwad family of Baroda, from the Maratha Princely state. His grandmother Vijayraje Scindia was among the BJP's founder members, with his aunts Vasundhara Raje and Yashodhara Raje are party members. He has a son, Mahanaaryaman Jyotiraditya Scindia (b.November 17,1995) and a daughter, Ananya Raje Scindia (b.March 31,2002).

He 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 Master of Business Administration from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University.

Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia (born 1 January 1971) is an Indian politician. He belongs to the House of Scindia that once ruled in Gwalior and is a former Member of Parliament, representing the Guna constituency in the state of Madhya Pradesh. He is a former member of the Indian National Congress and candidate of the Bharatiya Janata Party for the 2020 Indian Rajya Sabha elections from Madhya Pradesh.

Scindia was born on 1 January 1971 in Bombay to Madhavrao Scindia and Madhavi Raje Scindia, former rulers of Gwalior, a Maratha princely state. He was educated at Campion School, Mumbai and at The Doon School, Dehradun.

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.

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 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.

Scindia is President of the Board of Governors of Scindia School, Gwalior, which was founded by his great-grandfather, Madho Rao Scindia, in 1897.

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.