Rahul as PM in interest of nation's youth: Scindia

Brushes aside reports of rigt with Digvijay Singh

Union minister of state for power Jyotiraditya Scindia on Thursday said if Rahul Gandhi becomes prime minister of India it would be in favour of the youth of the nation.

“Being young I believe, it would in the interest and favour of the youth of this nation if Rahul Gandhi becomes the prime minister of India. However, only Congress leadership can decide about it,” Scindia said here.

As election campaign committee chairman for the coming assembly polls in Madhya Pradesh, Scindia is on whirlwind tour of the state. He brushed aside the reports that he had difference with the senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh and said, “He is veteran Congress leader and we are working together, strategising poll campaign under his guidance.” Hitting at the ruling BJP in Madhya Pradesh for calling him feudalistic, Scindia said, “No one becomes feudalistic just by birth. Since I am born in a particular family does not make me feudal. I am a commoner like everyone else. But I am surprised  when my grandmother (Vijayaraje Scindia) founded the BJP, why then the BJP was silent and did not call her feudalistic.''

They also did not call my aunt (Vasundhara Raje) feudalistic when she formed BJP’s government in Rajasthan, he added. When asked if he would resign from his present position and would contest state assembly elections, he said, “I will follow whatever my party will decide about me.”

State Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan during has made repeated claims that Congress is a party of “Maharajas” and has an ideology that a farmer’s son or a commoner cannot run the government. On his strategy for assembly polls in the state Scindia said, “There is no power, no infrastructure, no development in the state for the last ten years. There is no power more than six hours in state villages despite central minister has supported extensively under various schemes. We have decentralised the power but they (BJP) have decentralized the corruption as result of which anti-corruption agencies recover millions of rupees not from ministers but from their drivers and assistants.”