Vijaya Raje Scindia

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Vijaya Raje Scindia
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
In office
5 April 1957 – 2 April 1962
Preceded byV. G. Deshpande
Succeeded byRamsahai Pande
ConstituencyGuna
In office
2 April 1962 – 4 March 1967
Preceded bySuraj Prasad
Succeeded byRam Awtar Sharma
ConstituencyGwalior
In office
15 March 1971 – 18 January 1977
Preceded byYashwant Singh Kushwah
Succeeded byRaghubir Singh Machhand
ConstituencyBhind
In office
2 December 1989 – 10 October 1999
Preceded byMahendra Singh
Succeeded byMadhavrao Scindia
ConstituencyGuna
Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha
In office
10 April 1978 – 2 December 1989
ConstituencyMadhya Pradesh
Vice President of the Bharatiya Janata Party
In office
1980–1998
Personal details
BornLekha Divyeshwari Devi
(1919-10-12)12 October 1919
British India[1]
Died25 January 2001(2001-01-25) (aged 81)
New Delhi, India
Political partyBharatiya Janata Party (1980–2001)
Other political
affiliations
Spouse
Yashodhara Raje
Parents
  • Thakur Mahendra Singh (father)
  • Chuda Devashwari Devi (mother)

Vijaya Raje Scindia (12 October 1919 – 25 January 2001), born Lekha Divyeshwari Devi in Nepal and known popularly as the

Jivajirao Scindia, she ranked among the highest royal figures of the land. In later life, she became a politician of considerable influence and was elected repeatedly to both houses of the Indian parliament. She was one of the founding members of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh
.

Early years

Vijaya Raje Scindia was born in 1919 at

Jang Bahadur Kunwar Rana. She died at Vijaya Raje's birth. Her brother is Dhyanendra Singh, husband of Maya Singh.[2]

Personal life

In February 1941,

Jivajirao Scindia, Maharaja of Gwalior, one of the largest, richest and highest-ranking princely states
in India.

Children

Vijaya Raje and Jivajirao had four daughters and a son:

  1. Padmavati Raje 'Akkasaheb' Deb Barman (1942–64), who wed
    Maharaja of Tripura
    .
  2. Usha Raje Rana (born 1943), who wed
    Pashupati Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana of the Rana dynasty, Nepalese politician and grandson of the last Maharajah of Nepal. They are the parents of Devyani Rana
    and Urvashi Rana.
  3. Maharaja of Gwalior. He is the father of Jyotiraditya Scindia
    .
  4. Dholpur
    .
  5. Yashodhara Raje Scindia, formerly Sports Minister of Madhya Pradesh

Politics

Vijaya Raje Scindia on a 2001 stamp of India

Vijayaraje was initiated into electoral politics in 1957 when she contested and won the

MP, Gayatri Devi, in Tihar Jail
. In the 1970s, Vijayraje and her son Madhavrao were involved in a public dispute over property. Animosities heightened due to their differing political ideologies.

Vijayaraje came to the forefront of the BJP leadership in 1980 when she was made one of its vice-presidents. She played a key role in popularizing the party's Ram Janmabhoomi movement and was considered a hardliner. Following the demolition of the Babri Masjid in December 1992, she had declared that "she could now die without any regret, for she had seen her dream come true."[5] She remained a BJP vice-president until 1998 when she stepped down on health grounds and quit electoral politics. She died in January 2001.

Ancestry

Ancestors of Vijaya Raje Scindia
4. Thakur Theobaran Singh
2. Thakur Mahendra Singh of Sagar
1. Vijaya Raje Scindia
12. General H.E.
Khadga Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana
13. Nanda Kumari Thapa
3. Chuda Divyeshwari Devi
7. Rani Dhan Kumari Rajya Lakshmi Devi

References

  1. ^ http://www.streeshakti.com/bookV.aspx?author=7
  2. ^ "The Theory Of Relativity". Outlook India. 30 November 1998. Archived from the original on 9 February 2011.
  3. ^ Reed, Stanley (1950). The Indian And Pakistan Year Book And Who's Who 1950. Bennett Coleman and Co. Ltd. p. 684. Retrieved 22 February 2018.
  4. ^ Yadav, Shyamlal (13 March 2020). "The Gwalior dynasty: A short history of the Scindias in Indian politics". The Indian Express. Archived from the original on 3 April 2023. Retrieved 3 April 2023.
  5. ^ "December 6, 1992, a memoir". Rediff.com. 5 December 1997. Retrieved 2 November 2018.

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