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Vasundhara recalls Rajasthan's Scindia connection

By Our Special Correspondent

JAIPUR DEC. 6. The Chief Minister-designate of Rajasthan, Vasundhara Raje, today remembered the Scindia dynasty's tryst with the State's destiny. Starting from the late Rajmata Scindia, her mother, and the late Madhavrao Scindia, her brother, and now herself, one of the Scindias had been involved since the early 1990s in the making of the new Chief Minister in Rajasthan, she recalled.

Obviously, on the momentous occasion of getting elected as the leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party's Legislature group to be the next Chief Minister of Rajasthan, Ms. Raje could not have missed her own "parivar'' in Gwalior.

Ms. Raje said when the now Vice-President Bhairon Singh Shekhawat was elected leader of the BJP legislature party in the State in 1990 before taking over as Chief Minister, her mother as a senior party functionary had signed the papers.

In the same manner, when the previous Congress Government in the State led by Ashok Gehlot took over in 1998, her brother Madhavrao was one of the key functionaries of the Congress party who had steered the process of the choice of the new legislature party leader, Ms. Scindia noted.

"I think the Scindia parivar has a tradition of contributing its service to Rajasthan,'' she observed.

While accepting her selection as the leader of the BJP legislature party, with a "great responsibility,'' Ms. Raje said she was merely a "medium.'' "Neta (leader) is only a mouthpiece,'' she said.

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