Bhopal

The bitterness between the Nehru-Gandhi clan and Gwalior’s erstwhile royal family that sprung up three-and-a-half-years ago after Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia toppled the Congress Government in Madhya Pradesh in March 2020, has increased exponentially.

This was quite evident during the recent campaigns held in the run up to the November 17 Assembly elections in the state.

Following ‘Operation Lotus’ in 2020, both the families attacked each other politically but maintained the dignity of the age-old relationship between their families that went back to a few generations.

However, by the end of the campaign for the 2023 election, things took a turn for the worse and it became a no-holds-barred campaign.

Even though the Congress called Jyotiraditya Scindia ‘traitor’ soon after he shifted to the BJP, and his two former party colleagues – MPCC head Kamal Nath and Rajya Sabha MP Digvijya Singh called him ‘bikau’ there was not much of an exchange after that.

However, Priyanka Gandhi’s attack on the erstwhile royal family on the last day of campaigning in the Gwalior-Chambal region which is a Scindia bastion, made the Union Minister so furious and he went on to attack all four generations of the Nehru-Gandhi family.

After Priyanka’s sarcastic remarks like, Unhone apne pariwar ki parampara achhe se nibhai hai. (He is living up to the traditions of his family) and Scindia ji height me thoda kam rah gaye, lekin ghamand bahut bada hai unka (Scindia is a man of short height and high arrogance), Scindia hit back at the Gandhi family with a long post on his social media account.