The exit of Jyotiraditya Scindia from the Congress party was long in the making. The reasons for his unease within the party had been no secret either - he had lost out to Kamal Nath in the race to become the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh in December 2018 and then found his ambition to be appointed the state Congress chief unfulfilled because of satraps like Nath and Digvijaya Singh. Then came his shock defeat in the Lok Sabha polls.