Jyotiratidya Scindia Claps Back At Priyanka Gandhi Over "Height" Jibe

Jyotiraditya Scindia said, "Someone had spoken about my height. The people of Gwalior-Malwa have shown how tall they are."

As the BJP zoomed ahead of the Congress in the Madhya Pradesh election trends, Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia responded to a jab taken by Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra at his height. Responding to NDTV's question on the BJP's stellar show in the Gwalior Malwa region, seen as his area of influence, Mr Scindia said, "Someone had spoken about my height. The people of Gwalior-Malwa have shown how tall they are."

At a rally in Datia last month, Ms Gandhi Vadra had hit out at Mr Scindia, her friend-turned-rival, branding him a "traitor" who "betrayed" the mandate of the people. "All of their (the BJP's) leaders are a little weird. First our Scindia... I have worked with him in UP, Actually, his height is a little short but in arrogance, 'waah bhai waah'".

"Any worker who used to go to him, said, 'We have to call him Maharaj and if we don't say that, our issues will not get addressed'. He followed his family's tradition well. Many have betrayed, but they betrayed the public of Gwalior and Chamba... He made the government fall," she said, in an apparent reference to the Scindia royal family siding with the British during the 1857 rebellion.