Civil aviation minister Jyotiraditya Scindia is searching for votes from the individuals of Guna for the primary time on a Bharatiya Janata Social gathering ticket. He misplaced the 2019 Lok Sabha polls to his former aide KP Singh by a margin of 1,20,000 votes. Quickly after, the previous United Progressive Alliance (UPA) minister give up the Congress, joined the Bharatiya Janata Social gathering, and introduced down the Kamal Nath authorities in Madhya Pradesh.
This election, Scindia is BJP’s Guna candidate and in opposition to him is a former celebration man Rao Yadvendra Singh who fought and misplaced the 2023 meeting elections on a Congress ticket.
Guna will go to the polls within the third section of the continued Lok Sabha elections on Could 7, together with eight different parliamentary seats in Madhya Pradesh.
So is Guna seeing the election of 2024 as a battle of turncoats? Is the royal household’s legacy working to Scindia’s benefit? We caught up with “Maharaj”, because the BJP chief is thought within the Gwalior, Guna, Shivpuri belt, on the marketing campaign path. Edited excerpts:
What’s the election temper? How are you sensing the temper of the voter?
That could be a query so that you can reply. A candidate will at all times be biased and say that the temper is in his or her favour. You must give me an trustworthy image of the voters’ temper.
Let me rephrase the query. For many years you’ve got requested voters to stamp on the panja (Congress’s hand image) to vote for you. Now, how do you persuade them to press kamal (BJP’s lotus image)? Are you fearful about previous associations that could be imprinted on voters’ minds?
By no means. Folks have understood very clearly what has occurred within the final 4 years. And I discussed it on the manch as effectively (at an election assembly)…the federal government which got here with the mandate of the individuals, to serve individuals, quickly turned all about vote, word, and kursi. At that time once they advised me ‘sadak per aa jao’…I noticed pradhan mantri jis management and determined to serve beneath it.
So I introduced the Congress authorities down and ensured the BJP authorities was fashioned to serve the individuals. And other people have understood this.
Have been you additionally disenchanted? Right this moment, the Congress is repeatedly speaking about caste census. Caste {qualifications} appear to have performed a task of their candidate choice in opposition to you additionally it appears.
A rustic which is transporting itself to grow to be a Vishwaguru beneath PM’s management, in that nation, Congress’s agenda is caste politics? Congress needs to take the nation again a thousand years.
Congress has grow to be a celebration that’s bankrupt of concepts, ideology, management, and a celebration that doesn’t coexist with the concept of India anymore.
Do you discover any resonance of the caste census difficulty that the Congress is repeatedly elevating?
The Congress celebration that opposed the caste census, opposed the Mandal Fee, and it was a non-Congress authorities that introduced within the Mandal Fee, right this moment is speaking in a forked tongue in regards to the caste census. It wants to take a look at itself within the mirror.
The step that you just took about bringing down the Kamal Nath authorities…You don’t sense any adverse sentiment from voters round that transfer? What’s the message you take to voters on this difficulty?
I don’t want to provide any message anymore as a result of my step has been validated, first within the by-elections of 2020, then within the meeting elections of 2023. Folks have believed that it was the correct determination, which is why within the by-elections we received nearly all of the erstwhile Congress seats. After which within the 2023 Vidhan Sabha elections when everybody stated the Congress would type the federal government, it acquired worn out. The BJP acquired 163 seats out of 230. The individuals have spoken.
Is it the charisma of ‘Maharaj’ and Modi that’s working to woo the voters of Guna?
I don’t know who you’re speaking about as a result of my identify is Jyotiraditya Scindia. Very clearly Modi Ji’s imaginative and prescient for improvement, which has translated into this electrical relationship between him and the individuals of this nation, and that’s what you’re seeing the manifestation of, even right here. There may be actually a relationship between me and this area. It’s a relationship we now have solid from the core of our hearts, a relationship based mostly on improvement and progress, a relationship based mostly on reality, persistence, and perseverance, and that’s what I treasure most in my life.
You have to have seen the headlines that the Congress manifesto is producing. There are allegations of redistribution of wealth and favouring minorities. Was this the Congress in your time additionally?
Why are we speaking a couple of celebration which as I discussed is taking India again in time versus taking India forward? Right this moment’s India is about Prime Minister’s management, about entrepreneurship, about new job and wealth creation, about new financial energy, about rising on the world stage. Right this moment the world is speaking about India. And the Congress is speaking about taking India again 500 years. The individuals will denounce them as soon as once more on Could 7, and as soon as once more when the packing containers open on June 4.
These individuals don’t even consider in EVMs. They need to return to postal poll when the entire world is taking a look at our EVM know-how and needs to undertake it. They don’t even consider within the Supreme Court docket anymore. They don’t consider in something. I could be stepping over my boundaries, however I don’t know whether or not they even consider in themselves.
What about their indecisiveness with Amethi and Raebareli?
(Smiles) I’m busy in my very own state.
So what’s Mr Scindia getting for the individuals of Guna, as civil aviation minister?
As civil aviation minister, sure, we now have sanctioned an airport in Guna. I’ve constructed the biggest airport in Madhya Pradesh in report time of 16 months in Gwalior. Two and a half lakh sq. ft, Rs 500 crore, shilanyas was carried out in October 2022, inauguration by PM in March 2024, constructed within the shortest timespan in unbiased India…Such a big airport. So improvement throughout. Whether or not as civil aviation minister or the roads that you’re travelling on, the place your digital camera is just not shaking, these are all constructed by me. There have been pagdandis right here, no roads. This was often known as a BIMARU state, because the Shriman Bantadhar state. Have a look at the transformation that has occurred.
My last query is, what’s Mr Scindia’s plan if Guna votes for him?
Improvement, improvement, and improvement.
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