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Yashodhara Raje Scindia’s good-bye to politics
Posted on: October 10, 2023
Yashodhara Raje Scindia, late Vijayaraje Schindia’s youngest daughter and Minister of Sports and Youth Welfare, Technical Education, Skill Development and Employment of Madhya Prdesh, is feeling disenchanted with politics. She has announced more than once that she won’t stay in electoral politics. Her name is not included by the BJP high command in the list of candidates announced for the assembly elections to be held next month.
In fact she has felt never at home in electoral politics which she entered in 1998. Two years later her mother died and she expected the same reverence from partymen as was bestoed upon her mother. She could not adjust to the political conditions prevalent in India. She once told her supporters that she found politics “debased and devoid of ethics” and was yet to decide if she should re-enter it.
Once she had sent her resignation from the post of Secretary of the Madhya Pradesh BJP to the then State unit chief Kailash Joshi and pushed off to Delhi. There she was reported to have met the Congress president Sonia Gandhi through Kamal Nath in a bid to join the Congress but her nephew Jyotiraditya Scindia, MP from Guna, was said to have conveyed to Ms Gandhi in no uncertain terms that only one Scindia would remain in the Congress.
Yashodhara Raje had migrated to the US after her marriage. Following break-up with her husband, she returned to India and was with her mother during her last days. She had joined the BJP expecting the honour due to the heir of Vijayaraje Scindia, though she lacked the drive and charisma of her mother. She could never mix with party men and always sat erect on her seat in the Assembly, with the party MLAs going to her to pay their obeisance. She never joined the party in its protests, hardly ever spoke and submitted occasionally questions only for written answers.
The ascendance of Uma Bharati in 2003 made the things more difficult for her. The party leaders in the Shivpuri-Guna-Gwalior region, who were earlier looking up to Ms Scindia, were attracted towards Ms Bharati who was not only a charismatic leader but also the party’s chief ministerial candidate. Though a Secretary in the State unit the daughter of Vijayaraje Scindia felt all the more isolated and humiliated.
A little later in 2003, when she went to Sivpuri,she was accorded a tumultuous welcome. In the night she attended the function held on the occasion of the Ganesh Visarjan. At the insistence of the gathering, she addressed them and said that she had entered politics with high hopes but was now feeling disappointed.
Following the death of her mother Vijayaraje Scindia, she said, she was feeling utterly lonely. The people of Shivpuri then empathised with her. She felt that she must do something for these people. She then entered into politics. If she remained in politics, it would be to serve the people but the conditions were not conducive for that, she added.
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