Bhopal: After defecting to the Bharatiya Janata Party with a section of MLAs and bringing down the Kamal Nath-led Congress government in Madhya Pradesh in 2020, Union Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia made a stellar comeback at the Guna Lok Sabha seat, defeating Congress’s Rao Yadvendra Deshraj Singh, by a margin of 5,40,929 votes. In 2019, Scindia, who was then contesting on a Congress ticket, had become the first member of the Scindia family to have lost the Guna parliamentary seat. He was defeated by his former aide Krishna Pal Yadav, who had become a first-time MP on a BJP ticket.
The Guna constituency, a Scindia family stronghold, was once held by Scindia’s grandmother, Vijayaraje Scindia, who had started her political career from there in 1957, and had gone on to become the ...
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