Union Minister for Civil Aviation Jyotiraditya Scindia is leading in the Guna seat, with a huge margin of 5,20,000 votes, challenging Congress candidate Rao Yadvendra Singh.
This is Scindia’s fourth bid from this constituency.
Earlier in 2019, Scindia, aged 53, contested Guna constituency on a Congress ticket, but was defeated by BJP’s Krishna Pal Singh with a margin of 10.65%., despite being a scindia stronghold.
His grandmother Vijay Raje Scindia, also known as the Rajmata of Gwalior, represented the seat for four consecutive terms from 1989 to 1998 as a BJP member.
Later, his father held the seat for four terms from 1971 to 1980 as a Congress member, winning last election in 1999 until his death on September 30, 2001.
Following his father’s death and the vacancy of the seat, Jyotiraditya Scindia officially joined the Congress party and contested by-election from this seat in February 2002, thus, winning the constituency by defeating BJP’s Desh Singh Yadav.
Later, he continued to win the seat consecutively in 2004, 2009, and 2014.
During his tenure, he held significant government positions, including Union minister of state for telecommunications, commerce and industry, and power with independent charge.
But, in 2020, he defected from the Congress to join BJP, along with 22 of his loyalist MLAs in Madhya Pradesh, leading to BJP forming the government in the state, despite t Congress coming to power in the 2018 Madhya Pradesh Assembly elections with Kamal Nath as chief minister.
Following his switch to the BJP, Scindia was later nominated to Rajya Sabha and was given the position of civil aviation minister, a position once held by his father.