Prime Minister Narendra Modi on October 12, 2020 released a commemorative 100 rupee coin in the honour of Vijaya Raje Scindia.
- One of the founder members of BJP, Vijaya Raje Scindia is also popularly known as the Rajmata of Gwalior.
- Vijaya Raje Scindia was born on this day in 1919. She passed away in 2001.
- In 1957 1957 she contested and won the Guna Lok Sabha seat in Madhya Pradesh on a Congress ticket. In 1967 she quit the Congress and won the Guna seat in on Swatantra Party’s ticket.
- She wrote ‘rajpath se lokpath par’ book.
