New Delhi:
Jyotiraditya Scindia took charge of Modi 3.0’s Communications Ministry this morning and said it is like coming full circle because he had earlier worked as a junior minister in the same ministry from 2007 to 2009 when the UPA-government under Manmohan Singh was in power.
Earlier with the Congress, Mr Scindia was Minister of State for Communications and Information Technology in the UPA-1 government. He also held independent charge for Power and Corporate portfolios in the UPA-2 government. This time, he has risen to the cabinet rank.
The Madhya Pradesh leader, who switched from the Congress to the BJP in 2020 following a mutiny that brought down the Kamal Nath government, has been elected to Lok Sabha from his family stronghold Guna for the fifth time. In the second Narendra Modi government, he was a Rajya Sabha MP and handled the portfolios of Steel and Civil Aviation. Besides Communications, Mr …