On November 26, a tribal woman died after waiting in a queue for two consecutive days to obtain fertiliser from a distribution centre in Guna in Madhya Pradesh. The BJP’s Guna MP and Union Communications Minister, Jyotiraditya Scindia, immediately swung into action. He publicly reprimanded local officials, inspected such distribution centres himself, and initiated measures to improve the fertiliser supply system while ensuring more transparency in it.

It was not Scindia’s first intervention in the administration matters in Gwalior-Chambal in the BJP-ruled state. The region has immense political significance for both the BJP and Scindia, who is the scion of the erstwhile Gwalior ruling family.

Recently, Scindia set local authorities in motion after receiving complaints of illegal gravel m

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