வரலாறு முக்கியம் அமைச்சரே ! every heard of ‘chrysocracy’ ? – the noun
would mean – rule by the wealthy. Its
etymology is from Greek chryso- (gold) +
-cracy (rule) and is a synonym for plutocracy.
Parbati River is a
river in Madhya Pradesh, India that flows into the Chambal River. On its bank lies city of Guna that has played
important role in Indian politics and governance. In 1984 sympathy wave arising out of ghastly
assassination of Mrs Indira Gandhi
struck the opponents. Atal Bihari
Vajpayee who was a winner in 1977 & 1980 had shifted from Delhi to
Gwalior. Vidya Razdan was initially
tipped to be the Congress (I) candidate. Instead, Madhavrao Scindia, scion of
the Gwalior royal family, was brought in on the last day of filing nominations.
Vajpayee lost to Scindia, managing to
secure only 29% of the votes.
At Gwalior on Feb 24,
2010, after almost 40 years of ODI came the first assault on hitherto
considered unscalable – 200 by an individual.
Some had started speaking that he was ageing, Sachin Tendulkar against
one of the better bowling attacks eclipsed the earlier 194* becoming the first
man to score a double ton in ODI.
National Politics has
been the Congress and dynasty and for a brief Janata Party till Narendra Modiji
changed the rule. The Janata Party
alliance came into power after the elections to the 6th Lok Sabha held in 1977,
riding the public anger against the Congress and the Emergency but lost in the
subsequent elections, failing to keep their flock together. Janata Party, an amalgam of socialists and
nationalists, split in 1979.
The hot
news is from Madhya Pradesh - Jyotiraditya Scindia is likely to become a
Cabinet minister in the NDA government at the Centre and his nominee will
become a deputy chief minister if the BJP manages to form the government in
Madhya Pradesh. Media reports state
that younger scion Scindia had been “exploring” the option of
joining the BJP for the past “two months” and the Congress high command’s
prevarication over his nomination to the Rajya Sabha from Madhya Pradesh was
only the immediate trigger. Chief Minister Kamal Nath, whose government is now
teetering on the brink of collapse due to the impending defections of at least
22-25 Congress MLAs of the Scindia camp, didn’t help matters much. Kamal Nath
refused to reach out to Scindia and virtually kept him isolated — and even
stalled the latter’s claim for the post of the state Congress chief. So much
so, that senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh, never known as a Scindia
sympathiser, sought to convince the CM last month of the need to co-opt the
young leader but Kamal Nath didn’t pay any heed, a senior Congress functionary
said.
Jyotiraditya
Madhavrao Scindia (born 1971) from the
Scindia family that once ruled in Gwalior and is a former Member of Parliament,
representing the Guna constituency in the state of Madhya Pradesh. He was a member of the Indian National
Congress political party and was a Minister of State with independent charge
for Power in the cabinet of prime minister Manmohan Singh from Oct 2012 until
May 2014. Some history of Scindia is
necessary to be read at this stage to understand the background.
Maharaja Jivajirao
Scindia (1916 – 1961) of the Scindia dynasty of the Marathas was the last
reigning Maharaja of Gwalior state in central India, and the rajpramukh
(appointed governor) of the former state of Madhya Bharat, India. The Maharaja
was very popular due to his interest in model railroads. It is stated that he
had a toy train of silver in his palace.
Jivajirao ruled Gwalior state as absolute monarch until shortly after
India's independence on 15 August 1947. He signed a covenant with the rulers of the
adjoining princely states that united their several states form a new state
within the Union of India known as Madhya Bharat. Jivajirao Scindia became the first rajpramukh,
or appointed governor, of the state on 28 May 1948. He served as Rajpramukh till
1956, when the state was merged into
Madhya Pradesh.
Vijaya
Raje Shindia (1919 – 2001), born Lekha
Divyeshwari Devi and known popularly as the Rajmata of Gwalior, was consort of
Jivajirao Scindia. She was a politician
of considerable influence and was
elected repeatedly to both houses of the Indian parliament. She was also an
active member, for many decades, of the Jana Sangh and co-founder of Bharatiya
Janata Party.
The Scindia dynasty
was founded by Ranoji Scindia, son of Jankojirao Scindia, the Deshmukh of
Kanherkhed, a village in Satara District, Maharashtra. Ranoji Shinde, was in Chattrapati Shahu Maharaj's
service. He started his career as Sardar
under the leadership of Peshwa Baji Rao and later on established himself in
Malwa, as the Marathas took it over from the Mughals. He established his seat at Ujjain in 1731,
which remained the capital of the Scindias until 1810. The Scindhia state of Gwalior became a major
regional power in the latter half of the 18th century and figured prominently
in the three Anglo-Maratha Wars. They held sway over many of the Rajput states,
and conquered north India. The Shinde
family ruled Gwalior until India's independence from the United Kingdom in
1947, when the Maharaja Jivajirao Scindia acceded to the Government of India.
Gwalior was merged with a number of other princely states.
In
1962, Rajmata Vijayraje Scindia, the widow of Maharaja Jiwajirao, was elected
to the Lok Sabha, beginning the family's career in electoral politics. She was
first a member of the Congress Party, and later became an influential member of
the Bharatiya Janata Party. Her son Madhavrao Scindia was elected to the Lok
Sabha in 1971 representing the Jansangh Party, he joined Congress in 1980 and
served until his death in 2001. His son, Jyotiraditya Scindia, also in the
Congress Party, was elected to the seat formerly held by his father in 2004. Vijayaraje's daughters have supported the
Bharatiya Janata Party. Vasundhara Raje Scindia contested and won five
parliamentary elections from Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan. Under the Vajpayee
government from 1998 onwards, Vasundhara was in charge of several different
ministries. In 2003 she led the Bharatiya Janata Party to its largest majority
in Rajasthan, and became the State's Chief Minister. In 2013 again, she led BJP
to a thumping win in the state of Rajasthan, winning over 160 out of the 200
seats in the assembly elections. Her other daughter, Yashodhara Raje Scindia,
contested assembly elections from Shivpuri in Madhya Pradesh and won in 1998,
2003 and 2013 and also Lok sabha 2004, 2009 from Gwalior. Upon the BJP's win in
the state, she became the state's Minister for Tourism, Sports and Youth
Affairs. Vasundhara's son Dushyant Singh entered the Lok Sabha in 2004 from
Rajasthan.
Madhavarao
Scindia from early Jansangh days dallied with INC. A nine-term member of
the Lok Sabha, Madhavrao Scindia never lost an election since 1971, when he won
for the first time from Guna constituency at the age of 26. He contested the
election on the ticket of Jan Sangh, a party that his family had long
patronised. In the 1977 election after the emergency was lifted, he contested
from Guna constituency as an Independent candidate and still won the seat a second
time in spite of the wave in favour of Janata Party (Bhartiya Lok Dal-BLD). In
the 1980 election, he switched allegiance to Indian National Congress and won
from Guna a third time. In 1984, he was
nominated as the Congress candidate from Gwalior in a last-minute manoeuvre to
defeat the Bharatiya Janata Party's Atal Bihari Vajpayee, and won by a massive
margin. After that Scindia contested from either Gwalior or Guna and won on
each occasion. In 1996, he along with
Arjun Singh and other Congress dissidents had the opportunity to be part of the
United Front Govt at the Centre.
Although his Madhya Pradesh Vikas Congress was part of the U.F., Scindia
himself opted to stay out of the Cabinet. He was the President of the Board of
Control for Cricket in India from 1990 to 1993.
Now the younger Scion
Jyotiraditya Scindia has quit Congress to join BJP.
With
regards – S. Sampathkumar
11.03.2020.
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