Maharaja to Mantri: Jyotiraditya Scindia faces heat within BJP ranks in MP

The Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP’s) decision to appoint Narendra Singh Tomar as convener of the election management committee for the Madhya Pradesh (MP) Assembly elections is being seen as a setback for Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia, who was looking for a bigger role in the state before the elections.

The BJP is already battling factionalism in the Gwalior-Chambal region. The battle for supremacy and factionalism in the region has been at its peak since early 2020, when Scindia and his loyalists quit the Congress to align with the BJP.

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