Madhavrao Scindia

Madhavrao Scindia ( Hindi : माधवराव सिंडिया) (born March 10, 1945 in Bombay , † September 30, 2001 in Mainpuri ) was an Indian politician .

biography

He was a descendant of the influential Marathas - Dynasty Scindia who until sovereignty of India 1947, the ruler of the princely state of Gwalior presented. In 1961 he himself became the nominal maharaja of the princely state until the abolition of traditional princely privileges during the tenure of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1971.

In 1971 he was elected to the ( Lok Sabha ) as a candidate for the nationalist - Hindu Jan Sangh in the Guna constituency in Madhya Pradesh . In the 1977 election he was again successful in this constituency, this time as an independent candidate. A little later, however, he became a member of the Indian National Congress (INC) Indira Gandhis . As a congressional party candidate he was able to win the Guna constituency in the 1980 election and the Gwalior constituency in the 1984 , 1989 and 1991 elections again. In the 1984 election he defeated Atal Bihari Vajpayee from the Bharatiya Janata Party as an opposing candidate with a majority of more than 175,000 votes.

In October 1984 Scindia was appointed Minister for the Railways ( Indian Railways ) by Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in his government, to which he belonged until the end of Gandhi's tenure in December 1989. In the government of Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao he was Minister for Civil Aviation between 1991 and 1993 and later Minister for Human Capital Development from 1995 until the end of his term on May 16, 1996 . In 1996, Scindia had to resign because he was accused of being involved in the hawala bribery scandal. He was then no longer set up again as a candidate for the Congress Party for the constituency of Gwalior. He then founded his own party, the Madhya Pradesh Vikas Congress, and won the Gwalior constituency as a candidate for this party again with a large majority in the 1996 general election . A short time later, however, he reconciled himself with the Congress Party and rejoined it in 1997. In the 1998 and 1999 elections he was again successful in 3-Gwalior and 4-Guna.

Scindia was a member of the Lok Sabha from 1971 until his death in 2001 and was able to win his constituency in 9 consecutive elections.

Madhavrao Scindia died in a plane crash on a domestic flight .

Web links

• rulers.org

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} When the Giants Fell. rediff.com, March 6, 1998, accessed September 4, 2015 . 
2. ^ Election Results - Full Statistical Reports. Indian Election Commission, accessed on September 4, 2015 (English, election results of all Indian elections to the Lok Sabha and the parliaments of the states since independence).