A day after former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi commented on Jyotiraditya Scindia, the latter retaliated by questioning Gandhi’s concerns and said, “It would have been a different situation had Rahul Gandhi been concerned the same way as he is now when I was in Congress.”

This comes after Rahul Gandhi on Monday said that had turncoat Scindia worked hard in the party he would have become the Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister, but after switching to BJP he occupied the “last seat”. Gandhi made the statement while addressing the Youth Congress meeting in New Delhi. He said Scindia had been in a decisive role in the Congress.

“He is getting a place in the back seat in BJP and when he was in Congress, he used to sit with us,” Gandhi had said.

Twenty-two Congress MLAs, mostly from a camp loyal to Scindia, had resigned in March last year, reducing the Kamal Nath-led dispensation to a minority and paving the way for the BJP to form the government. Scindia and these former MLAs later joined the BJP.

On March 10, his father Madhavrao Scindia’s birth anniversary– Jyotiraditya posted a letter on Twitter, dated a day earlier and addressed to Congress president Sonia Gandhi. The letter announced his resignation from Congress, which he had joined 18 years ago following the death of his father.

Earlier on Tuesday, Madhya Pradesh Home Minister Narottam Mishra had also hit back at Rahul Gandhi by saying, “Rahul Gandhi understood very quickly that without Scindia, Congress in MP is zero.”