New Delhi: Jyotiraditya Scindia formally joined the Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ) on Wednesday, a day after he quit the Congress, and within hours was named the party’s Rajya Sabha candidate from Madhya Pradesh Scindia, who joined the BJP at its headquarters in the presence of party president JP Nadda, heaped praise on Prime Minister Narendra Modi while slamming Madhya Pradesh chief minister Kamal Nath ’s government for failing to keep its promise of loan waiver to farmers and providing jobs to the youth.The scion of the Scindia family, who was a close confidant of former Congress president Rahul Gandhi, is likely to be made a Union cabinet minister in the next reshuffle expected in April.Meanwhile, in Madhya Pradesh, the BJP is looking at the prospect of forming a government after 22 Congress MLAs resigned. If the resignations are accepted by the assembly Speaker, it would bring down the effective strength of the House from 228 to 206, with 104 as the halfway mark. BJP has 107 MLAs.BJP, however, faces two challenges – keeping its flock together and ensuring that the rebel Congress MLAs do not go back to Kamal Nath. The saffron party has kept its MLAs in a five-star hotel in Manesar, Haryana. Nath and former two-time CM Digvijaya Singh, with the help of newly appointed Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee chief DK Shivakumar, are trying to woo back the rebels.The ball will be in the court of the Speaker NP Prajapati, a Congress leader, who will take a final call on the resignations.Scindia told media persons that he took the decision to join the BJP bearing in mind that it coincided with his father’s 75th birth anniversary on March 10. “Our aim should be to serve the people and politics should only be an instrument to achieve this aim,” he said, adding that he was “sad and pained” that this aim was not getting fulfilled in Congress.“Congress is no longer the party it used to be. It is living in denial of the reality and is not ready for change,” said Scindia. He also charged his former party with not giving due regard to new leadership and said the problems in the central leadership had now percolated to his state Madhya Pradesh as well.The Gwalior royal said the dreams he had in 2018 of working for the people were shattered by the Congress government in Madhya Pradesh.“The farm loan waiver, which was promised to be done within 10 days, has still not been fulfilled. Farmers have not been given compensation for crop damage… There are cases against thousands of farmers in the Mandsaur firing case,” said Scindia.He alleged that jobs promised to the youth had not been delivered, neither had the monthly unemployment bonus been given. He also accused the Kamal Nath government of indulging in rampant corruption and running a “transfer industry”.Lauding the leadership of Prime Minister Modi, Scindia said he had got the mandate of the people twice. He said the BJP provided him with a platform (using which) he can work for the progress of the country. “I think India’s future is fully secure in his (Modi’s) hands,” Scindia said.Welcoming Scindia into the BJP, Nadda said his grandmother Rajmata Vijaya Raje Scindia was a founder member of both the Jana Sangh and the BJP, and had worked hard to propagate the party’s ideology and principles.“Right from the inception of the party she worked day in and day out to see that this ideology grows. It is a matter of happiness for us that her grandson is joining the party. We believe he is a member of our family,” Nadda said.Nadda indicated that Scindia would get all opportunity to grow in the BJP, saying it was a democratic party that provided all individuals with an environment to thrive.Among state leaders, only the BJP MP unit chief VD Sharma was present at the induction. Former chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and others from the state did not attend the programme.