Her siblings are
Vasundhra Raje Scindia former Chief Minister of
Rajasthan, late
Madhavrao Scindia, Padmavati Raje 'Akkasaheb' Burman and Usharaje Rana. Usha Raje Rana married
Pashupati Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana, grandson of
His Highness Shree Shree Shree 3 Maharaja Sir Mohan Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana of
Nepal.
Pashupati Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana is a politician in Nepal. Her brother was
Madhavrao Scindia who was born in 1945. He was an eminent politician belonging to the
Indian National Congress party as opposed to his mother and sisters who belong to the
Bhartiya Janata Party. He was married to Madhavi Raje Scindia of Nepal and had two children
Chitrangada Raje Scindia who married into the erstwhile royal family of Kashmir and
Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia the former Member of Parliament from the Congress Party of the Guna constituency in Madhya Pradesh. Madhav Rao died in a plane crash in 2001. Her other sister is Vasundhara Raje Scindia of Dholpur who is a member of the Bhartiya Janata Party. Vasundhara has one son
Dushyant Singh the Yuvraj of Dholpur who is currently the Member of Parliament from the
Jhalawar in Rajasthan. Yashodhara moved to New Orleans, USA in 1977 after marrying Sidharth Bhansali a cardiologist. She has 3 children, Akshay a producer at MTV Desi in New York (26 yrs), Abhishek a student at the NYU Stern School of business (born in 1985) and Trishala a student at NYU (born in 1988). Whilst there, she was amongst other things, board member of the Delta Festival Ballet, an Advisory Board Member of the Contemporary Art Center, a Fellow of the New Orleans Museum of Art as well as single-handedly raised a quarter of a million dollars for the Audubon zoological society. The funds were dedicated to a permanent Indian exhibit space at the Audubon zoo (Voted the # 3 zoo in the whole of USA). After raising the funds she conceptualized and supervised the making of the entire exhibit which was made by local craftsmen in India and then transported in small pieces by sea and re-assembled at the site. She finalized her divorce and entered politics after returning to India in 1994. ==Political life and career==