Former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Monday said that had turncoat Jyotiraditya Scindia worked hard in the party he would have become the Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister, but after switching to BJP he occupied the “last seat”.
Gandhi made the statement while addressing the Youth Congress meeting in New Delhi. He said Scindia had been in a decisive role in the Congress.
Rahul Gandhi, who arrived in Delhi to participate in the two-day executive meeting of the Indian Youth Congress, referred to Scindia and said, “He is getting a place in the back seat in BJP and when he was in Congress, he used to sit with us.”
According to sources, Gandhi said that the Congress party was a ‘sea of opportunities’ as its doors were open for everyone, and while no one would be stopped from becoming a member, neither would anyone be stopped from leaving if they did not agree with the party’s ideology.
A Youth Congress member asked during the meeting whether those who leave the party and return could get a big, decisive role later. It will take some time for them to come to a decisive role, Gandhi replied.
The senior party leader asked Youth Congress workers to “work to fight the ideology of RSS and BJP.” Twenty-two Congress MLAs, mostly from a camp loyal to Scindia, had resigned in March last year, reducing the Kamal Nath-led dispensation to a minority and paving the way for the BJP to form the government.
Scindia and these former MLAs had then joined the BJP.
On March 10 – his father Madhavrao Scindia’s birth anniversary – Jyotiraditya posted a letter on Twitter, dated a day earlier and addressed to Congress president Sonia Gandhi. The letter announced his resignation from the Congress. Jyotiraditya had joined the party 18 years ago following the death of his father.
The Scindias have had a history of association with both the Congress and the BJP. Jyotiraditya’s grandmother Vijaya Raje Scindia started her political career as a Congress member and was Lok Sabha MP from Guna-a seat later represented by Jyotiraditya. In 1967, she quit the Congress and joined the Swatantra Party, and later the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, the BJP’s previous avatar. She eventually became one of the vice-presidents of the BJP. Jyotiraditya’s aunts, Vasundhara Raje and Yashodhara Raje, are senior BJP leaders.
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