Click to play videoDabra, Madhya Pradesh: Election time is one of those times when Gwalior royal Shrimanth Maharaja Scindia or Jyotiraditya Scindia connects with the masses.
Driving through dusty roads of the Chambal division in Gwalior, his family’s kingdom once, Scindia is treated like royalty but insists on behaving like a man of the people. His campaign agenda is clear: get votes for the Congress.
“I have toured 65 constituencies so far. All my energies today are focused on just one thing and that is to ensure that Soniaji’s (Congress chief Sonia Gandhi) directive to us to ensure a Congress government over here in MP is achieved,” says Scindia.
To connect with the masses, Scindia has foregone his bandh gala and fancy. Instead there is what the aam aadmi could best identify with: a regular cotton churidaar pajama and a Congress scarf carelessly thrown around his neck.
Once, with people he becomes one with them. Sitting on the floor, accepting garlands, even remembering to address them by their names. For voters lined up on roads, this works. People watch him with folded hands, climbing on to toes to catch a glimpse. His audience has everyone: old men, young boys, school girls and veiled old women. He makes promises and promises to fulfill them.
"The Congress party never believes in committing to something to which it can not deliver. I think unlike the stock market our record in governance stands by the future ability to deliver," he says.
He talks about the developmental schemes he has brought to the region. For him the battle is not against the just the BJP but all those from within the Congress who want to push him back.
The internal bickering in the Congress in Madhya Pradesh not withstanding all the top contenders for the post of chief minister are trying their best to ensure victory for their respective candidates.
Scindia controls the Gwalior-Chambal division and his future in Congress politics will depend on the number of Congressmen that emerge victorious from here.
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