 Scindia was tasked by the Indian Planning Commission with preventing a repetition of the July 2012 India blackout, the largest power outage in history, which affected over 620 million people, about 9% of the world population, In May 2013, Scindia claimed that checks and balances had been put in place to prevent any recurrence of grid collapse and that India would have the world's largest integrated grid by January 2014.In 2014, Scindia was elected from Guna but lost that seat to Krishna Pal Singh Yadav in 2019.He resigned from the Indian National Congress by giving his resignation to the interim party president Sonia Gandhi.