Jyotiraditya Scindia left the Congress, his party of 19 years, in March last year. Highlights Jyotiraditya Scindia left Congress, his party of 19 years, in March 2020 Rahul Gandhi apparently spoke about him at a meet of Congress Youth Wing New Delhi: Rahul Gandhi's reported comment that Jyotiraditya Scindia had become a "backbencher" in the BJP and would have to return to the Congress to ever be chief minister has drawn a swift and sharp response from the Rajya Sabha member who made the big switch last year. "It would have been a different situation had Rahul Gandhi been concerned the same way as he is now, when I was in the Congress," Jyotiraditya Scindia was quoted by news agency ANI as saying.