Jyotiraditya Scindia | Modi Cabinet BJP leader Jyotiraditya Scindia takes oath in PM Modi's Cabinet 2.0
New Delhi/IBNS: Sixteen months after joining the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Jyotiraditya Scindia on Wednesday took oath as minister in the Narendra Modi government 2.0.
Scindia is among 43 leaders who have been inducted into the Modi government as part of cabinet expansion and reshuffle.
Catapulted into the political sphere by destiny in the wake of his sire Shrimant Madhavrao Scindia’s demise in a plane crash in 2001, Scindia was first elected to Parliament from Guna in Madhya Pradesh on a Congress ticket in 2002 in a by-election necessitated by the death of his father, a seasoned politician who had no less than nine consecutive terms in the House of the People.
From 2002-04, Scindia, who was a Congress leader then, served as Member, Standing Committee on Finance and Member, Standing Committee on External Affairs.
In 2004, he was elected to the 14th Lok Sabha and served with the committees on Estimates, Petitions; Standing committees on Defence and Finance.
Scindia resigned as the Congress leader amid his differences with the party's top brass and joined the BJP in March 2020.
In his resignation letter to Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi, Scindia had said he was not able to work for people remaining in the party.
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