“ONLY THE PEOPLE CAN JUDGE ME”

I may look young but my soul is old,” says newly minted BJP leader Jyotiraditya Scindia to a 3,000-strong crowd that has assembled on a sunny late October morning in Dholagarh, a mofussil 85 km from Gwalior, to see and hear him campaign for the Madhya Pradesh by-elections. This is Scindia’s way of telling them that despite his royal background, sophisticated demeanour and foreign education, he is one among them—rooted in “Indian culture”.

“I do not need to travel in an AC car. I’ve been taught how to work hard and survive on one