{"id":122493,"date":"2021-03-09T16:36:49","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T11:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=122493"},"modified":"2021-03-09T19:30:37","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T14:00:37","slug":"jyotiraditya-scindia-rahul-gandhi-bjp-backbencher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/politics\/jyotiraditya-scindia-rahul-gandhi-bjp-backbencher\/","title":{"rendered":"Jyotiraditya Scindia responds to Rahul Gandhi&#8217;s BJP backbencher jibe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BJP leader Jyotiraditya Scindia on Tuesday responded to Congress MP Rahul Gandhi&#8217;s comment on him that he had become a backbencher in the BJP and would have to return to the Congress to ever be chief minister. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Rajya Sabha member said it would have been a different situation had Rahul Gandhi been concerned the same way as he is now, when he was in the Congress. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It would have been a different situation, had Rahul Gandhi been concerned the same way as he is now, when I was in Congress: BJP MP Jyotiraditya Scindia on Rahul Gandhi&#39;s statement that he has become a backbencher in BJP <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EjlYXEWFxe\">pic.twitter.com\/EjlYXEWFxe<\/a><\/p>&mdash; ANI (@ANI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ANI\/status\/1369186727818981379?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 9, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Also Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/delhi-budget-2021-2022-aap-govt-manish-sisodia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Delhi Budget 2021-2022: AAP govt says Delhi to bid for Olympics in 2048<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scindia had joined BJP in March 2020, leaving the Congress party after 19 years, which led to the collapse of Kamal Nath government and the return of the BJP in Madhya Pradesh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rahul Gandhi on Monday spoke about Scindia and his one-time close aide at a meeting of the Indian Youth Congress. Gandhi said Scindia has become a backbencher in the BJP. He had the option to strengthen the organisation by working with Congress workers and that he had told the now BJP leader that one day he will become the Chief Minister. But he chose another route, Gandhi added. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Also Read<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/trivendra-singh-rawat-resigns-uttarakhand-cm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Election looming, Uttarakhand CM Trivendra Singh Rawat resigns<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Wayanad MP said to the members present in the meeting that they should write it down, he will never become Chief Minister there. He will have to come back to the Congress for that, news agency ANI reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before joining the BJP, Scindia had been in a sulk for more than a year as he did not get any key role in Madhya Pradesh under Kamal Nath government and sources close to him claimed that he failed to get an appointment with Sonia Gandhi or Rahul Gandhi for months. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rahul Gandhi on Monday spoke about Scindia and his one-time close aide at a meeting of the Youth Wing of the Congress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":122523,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4],"tags":[101795,8534,110,101801],"yst_prominent_words":[20827,7540,20926,3811,3813,3814,49726,3874,4328,3688,22429,5956,5951,41111,12742,8236],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2021\/03\/09164600\/Jyotiraditya-Scindia.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122493"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122493"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=122493"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=122493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->