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Former Haryana minister Savitri Jindal quits Congress, joins BJP
Her son and industrialist Naveen Jindal, who is a former Congress MP, joined the BJP last Sunday and was named the party’s Kurukshetra Lok Sabha candidate
Former Haryana minister Savitri Jindal quit the Congress and joined the BJP on Thursday, days after her son and industrialist Naveen Jindal left the party to join the saffron party.
Savitri Jindal, 84, joined the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) at an event in Hisar in the presence of chief minister Nayab Singh Saini, his predecessor Manohar Lal Khattar and other BJP leaders.
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Announcing her decision to quit the Congress on a social media post on Wednesday night, she said, “I represented the people of Hisar for 10 years as an MLA and have served Haryana state selflessly as a minister. The people of Hisar are my family and on the advice of my family, I am resigning from the primary membership of the Congress today.”
Savitri Jindal was listed as the richest woman in the country by Forbes India this year. According to the Forbes list of the 10 richest women in India, the wife of late industrialist and former minister OP Jindal has a net worth of $29.1 billion ( ₹2.42 lakh crore).
Savitri Jindal was a minister in the previous Bhupinder Singh Hooda-led Congress government in Haryana.
In 2014, she lost to BJP’s Dr Kamal Gupta from Hisar. At present, Gupta is a minister in the Nayab Singh Saini government.
Naveen Jindal, who represented Kurukshetra constituency in the Lok Sabha from 2004-14 as a Congress MP, had quit the party on Sunday, saying that he wants to contribute to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s agenda of Viksit Bharat (developed India). He has been named as the BJP candidate from Kurukshetra.
Haryana votes in the sixth phase of the Lok Sabha elections on May 25.
