Team News Riveting
Bhopal, October 10
Jyotiraditya Scindia trudged down the political road that her grandmother followed some 53 years ago.
“In 1967, my grandmother Vijaya Raje Scindia toppled the D P Mishra-led Congress government following betrayal and he brought down Kamal Nath government for the same reason,” Jyotiraditya said in Dabra (Gwalior) while addressing BJP workers’ convention.
He said the Congress formed the government in Madhya Pradesh two years ago only because of Chambal and Gwalior. But the people were betrayed. “Scindias are not desperate for power; they only want to live in the heart of its people,” he added.
Jyotiraditya Scindia, the grandson of the late Vijaya Raje Scindia, quit the Congress along with 22 MLAs, overthrowing the 14-month-old Kamal Nath-led government.
Like her grandmother, Jyotiraditya was also close to the Nehru-Gandhi family. Vijaya Raje, once a close confidant of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, the great grandfather of Rahul Gandhi, had started her political innings in 1957 from the Congress. However, she left the party in 1967.
But before that, she stirred the political cauldron in central India. She ousted the D P Mishra-led Congress government in the state in July 1967.
According to veteran Congress leaders, the trouble between Vijaya Raje Scindia and the then chief minister D P Mishra started when she went to him with a list of candidates, whom she wanted to be nominated as Congress candidates for the Lok Sabha and MP Assembly polls which were to be held simultaneously.
Mishra reportedly made her wait for two hours, which left Rajmata fuming.
