Jyotiraditya Scindia entered politics in 2001 after losing her father.
New Delhi:
Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said the Congress party has lost its footing as the leadership is out of touch with the public and its vision for India, adding that the opposition is in a very steady decline .
Scindia, who quit the Congress in 2020 to join the BJP, said his former party had lost touch with the leadership.
“I think the Congress has lost its footing. There is no dispute about that, it has lost its footing,” he said in a written and video interview with Press Trust of India (PTI).
He was asked whether the Congress party had lost momentum after its better-than-expected performance in the April-May general elections.
“Frankly, I have nothing to say about the Congress Party. I think the Congress Party is in a very steady state of decline, and I think it’s because of three things. I think the Congress Party has lost touch in terms of leadership. .
“It has lost touch with the public and I believe the Congress Party has also lost touch with the vision of India. When you lose all these three attributes, you lose the trust of the people of India and that is what the Congress Party is today situation,” Mr Scindia said.
He, however, made no direct comment on Congress leader and Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, saying he could not “judge any one individual”.
“I think each of us has to carve out our own destiny and niche, and I think it’s important to be able to focus on the positivity of what you want to do in life, and I want to do that in my life,” Modi Gov. Scindia, Minister of Communications and Development, Northeast Region said.
He went on to add that human resource assessment is one of the most important decision-making factors that determine the success of any entity.
“It (Congress) has lost the ability to differentiate leadership qualities from those who don’t necessarily possess leadership qualities,” he said. “HR assessment is one of the most important decision-making factors for the success of any business, whether it’s a multinational, an Indian company or a political party. Because at the end of the day, it’s not about your bottom line or your net profit line that talks about what you can do.”
When Mr Scindia quit the Congress in March 2020, he was said to be anguished over the party’s reneging on its manifesto promises to the people of Madhya Pradesh, which exposed him to heavy criticism from youth and farmers. Being snubbed for leadership positions in the state was also cited as a reason.
“It depends on the quality of the company’s employees, which ultimately determines the bottom line,” he said in the interview.
He predicted that the BJP would win the Maharashtra Assembly elections, just like the just-concluded Haryana polls.
“As far as Maharashtra is concerned, it’s a state that I have a lot of affection for because I’m originally from that state and I’ve spent a lot of time in that state and I very, very much believe in the BJP in the Prime Minister’s The leadership will definitely win the hearts and minds of the people again in this election, and you and I will sit down on the 23rd of this month to discuss the election results,” he said.
Mr Scindia entered politics after losing his father and nine-time Lok Sabha member Madhavrao J Scindia in a plane crash in 2001.
When asked about his political ambitions, especially in Madhya Pradesh, Mr Scindia said that his father and grandmother Vijaya Raje Scindia taught him at a very young age , their goal should not be politics but public service, and politics should only be the medium through which it is achieved.
“If you define it by that title, it doesn’t matter where you sit or not. What matters is, are you serving people? Are you working for their benefit? If that’s your passion, then This comes in any form.
A Harvard graduate and Stanford MBA alumnus, Scindia worked as an investment banker at Morgan Stanley before entering politics.
Talking about his transition into politics, Scindia said there was no comparison between his early life and public service.
“There’s no comparison. In public service, if you can touch one person’s life, the satisfaction you get deep down in your soul, you can’t compare to anything tangible and material,” he said.
When asked if he wanted his son Mahanaryaman Scindia to inherit his legacy, Mr. Scindia said he did not believe he had the right to decide the fate of his children.
“I believe that your destiny is what you create. I don’t believe that because you are a parent, you have the right to decide the destiny of your child. Everyone has to do their karma (actions), and as parents, we Just do what God has entrusted to us, which is to make sure that we instill good values in our children, that we make them compassionate, that we educate them, and others.
The minister also said that he was influenced by his grandmother and father in different ways.
“They all showed it in different ways, my grandmother had a strong determination and a strong determination to believe in the things she believed in and that it would always come true. When I made a really big move , I took a certain amount of inspiration from it because she faced the same situation, she suffered a certain amount of humiliation in her life under the DMK (Dwarka Prasad) Mishra government.
“The person my father was and his ability to impact people’s lives, it’s not something you can instill or nurture. It has to be ingrained,” he said.
Mr Scindia said politics had become more comparative and demanding “and he thought that was good, that was good”.
“From the 1980s to today, in the last 23 years, the purpose of politics has been in a way less Rajneeti and more like Janseva. Now it has become more like Raj Rajniti I think for this purpose the Prime Minister is leading a whole new trend of paradigm shift of Jana Sevak, Pradhan Sevak and Pradhan Rakshak and I think even in politics we There is also a need to return our country to these values.
The minister said politics is mostly the art of the possible, but sometimes it can be the art of the impossible.
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