Jyotiraditya Scindia

He was among the richest ministers in the UPA government with assets valued at including investments in Indian and foreign securities worth over inr 160000000 and jewellery worth over inr 57000000.

Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia (born 1 January 1971) is an Indian politician who serves as the Minister of Civil Aviation and Steel in the second Narendra Modi ministry since 2021 and 2022 respectively.

Jyotiraditya was briefly the titular Crown Prince of Gwalior in 1971, until the privy purses and titles of Indian royals were abolished by the government in 1971.

Scindia was born on 1 January 1971 in Mumbai to Madhavrao Scindia and Madhavi Raje Scindia.

He originally belongs to Kunbi He was educated at Campion School, Mumbai and at The Doon School, Dehradun.

At Doon, Scindia was a contemporary of Rahul Gandhi.

Scindia 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.

He is former member of the Indian National Congress (INC) from 2001 to 2020 and a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) since 2020.

In 2001, he received a Master of Business Administration from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Scindia is a grandson of Jiwajirao Scindia, the last Maharaja of the princely state of Gwalior.

His father Madhavrao was a politician and a minister in the government of Rajiv Gandhi.

His mother, Madhavi Raje (Kiran Rajya Lakshmi Devi), hails from the royal family of Nepal.

He is married to Priyadarshini Raje Scindia.

The couple have one son, Mahaaryaman Scindia, and one daughter, Ananya Scindia.

On 30 September 2001, the Guna constituency fell vacant due to the death of Scindia's father, the sitting MP Madhavrao Scindia, in an airplane crash in Uttar Pradesh.

On 18 December, he formally joined the INC and pledged to uphold the "secular, liberal and social justice values" of his father.

On 24 February, he won the by-election in Guna, defeating his nearest rival, Desh Raj Singh Yadav of the BJP, by a margin of approximately 450,000 votes.

He is a former Member of Parliament in the Lok Sabha, representing the Guna constituency in Madhya Pradesh from 2002 until his defeat in the 2019 election.

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 appointed Minister of State for Communication in 2007 later as minister of state independent charge for Power 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.

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

In 2010, he filed a legal claim to be the sole inheritor of the property belonging to his late father worth inr 200000000000, however this was challenged in court by his aunts.

While a member of the INC, he served as the Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Power and Corporate in the second Manmohan Singh ministry from 2012 to 2014.

Scindia is the son of politician Madhavrao Scindia, and a grandson of Jiwajirao Scindia, the last ruler of the princely state of Gwalior during the British Raj in India.

He 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, he 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.

In 2014, he was elected from Guna.

In 2019, he lost his seat to Krishna Pal Singh Yadav.

In 2019, he was appointed as General Secretary in-charge for Uttar Pradesh West along with Priyanka Gandhi Vadra.

He is a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha representing the state of Madhya Pradesh since 2020.

Citing disgruntlement with the INC leadership, Scinidia quit the Congress party on 10 March 2020.

The Congress party then released a statement claiming that he had been expelled for "anti-party activities."

He joined the BJP on 11 March 2020.

Other MLAs loyal to him also resigned from the INC and their MLA posts.

This led to the 2020 Madhya Pradesh political crisis which in turn resulted in the resignation of Kamal Nath as chief minister on 23 March 2020.

Nath's replacement, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, was sworn in as chief minister of Madhya Pradesh on 23 March 2020.

On 19 June 2020, Scindia was elected a BJP Rajya Sabha MP from Madhya Pradesh.

On 7 July 2021, he was appointed as the Minister of Civil Aviation in Second Modi ministry after a cabinet reshuffle in July 2021.

In February 2022, he was appointed Prime Minister Modi's special envoy to Romania to oversee the evacuation of Indian nationals in Ukraine resulting from the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine.