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Why Jyotiraditya Scindia iS

unlikely to fulfil hiS MP cM dreaM

deSPite Joining BJP

Jyotiraditya Scindia, who joined BJP today, is in 2007 and then promotion as MoS (Independent charge)
likely to be made a Union Cabinet minister, but in 2012; Madhya Pradesh Congress campaign committee
there are many hurdles to him becoming Madhya chief in 2013 and 2018; chief whip in the Lok Sabha in 2014;
Congress Working Committee (CWC) member; and, general
Pradesh CM. secretary in-charge of western Uttar Pradesh in 2019.
F or Congressmen growing impatient while waiting Enough key BJP leaders in MP

for rewards to come their way, Sonia Gandhi had Now that Jyotiradtya Scindia has jumped ship, the question
some reassuring words: “Congress mein der hai, doing the rounds in political circles is: Can the BJP give him
andher hain. Queue lambi ho sakti hai, lekin sabka what the Congress couldn’t? He is likely to be inducted as a
turn aata hai (There is delay in the Congress, Cabinet minister in Narendra Modi government. It’s, however,
but not darkness. The queue may be long but a well-known fact that Scindia’s ultimate ambition is to
everybody’s turn comes).” That was at the All India Congress become the chief minister of his home state, the undisputed
Committee (AICC) session at Burari in Delhi in 2010. leader or numero uno in Madhya Pradesh politics. There are
two reasons why it’s not going to be easy for Scindia to realise
Jyotiraditya Scindia might have got tired of waiting for an that ambition.
appropriate reward — chief ministership — before he decided
to resign from the party Monday and join the BJP two days First, there is a question mark on his acceptability by the
later. His former colleagues in the Congress believe he never entrenched BJP leadership in the state. Shivraj Singh Chouhan
had to stand in that queue. is likely to become the chief minister if the BJP is able to
unseat the Kamal Nath government. Chouhan is unlikely to
Party spokesman Pawan Khera says Scindia got “eight cede his space any time soon. At 61, he has a lot of politics
promotions” in his 18 years in the party: Congress tickets to left in him. Even if the central BJP leadership were to go for a
contest Lok Sabha elections; induction as minister of state succession plan and project a new face in Madhya Pradesh in

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