New Delhi: A day after announcing his resignation from Congress, Jyotiraditya Scindia joined the BJP on Wednesday in the presence of the ruling party’s president JP Nadda.
On Tuesday, Scindia resigned from the Congress and shot off a letter to party chief Sonia Gandhi, saying “it is now time for me to move on”.
He also wrote: “To reflect and realise the aspirations of my people and my workers I believe it is best that I now look ahead at a fresh start.”
Jyotiraditya Scindia had reportedly been unhappy with the Congress leadership for about a year.
Once close to the Gandhi family, he lost the race for chief ministership to Kamal Nath in 2018, when the party won the Madhya Pradesh election because he could show the support of only 23 MLAs.
Scindia, four-time MP, first got elected from Guna in Madhya Pradesh in 2002 after winning a by-election necessitated by his father’s demise.
He was only 31 years old at that time. He gradually made his way up the Congress ladder becoming Minister of State for Communications and IT in 2007 during the Congress-led UPA-1.
In 2009, he became Minister of State for Commerce and Industry and in 2012 was appointed Minister of State for Power during UPA-2.