According to the Forbes list, Savitri, the widow of industrialist and former minister OP Jindal, has a net worth of $29.1 billion.
India’s richest woman and former Haryana minister Savitri Jindal on Thursday joined the Bharatiya Janata Party ahead of the upcoming Lok Sabha polls 2024. She had quit the Congress party on Wednesday night. To subscribe please click tau.id/2iy6f and access our live channel.
The former Haryana minister announced her decision to quit the Congress on a social media post late Wednesday night. “I represented the people of Hisar for 10 years as an MLA and have served Haryana state selflessly as a minister,” the 84-year-old wrote in her post.
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“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.” Her decision comes days after her son Naveen Jindal, a former MP, also quit the Congress and joined the Bharatiya Janata Party.
She joined the ruling BJP at an event in Haryana’s Hisar in the presence of Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini and former CM Manohar Lal Khattar. Savitri was a minister in the previous Bhupinder Singh Hooda-led Congress government.
In 2014, she lost to BJP’s Kamal Gupta from Hisar. Gupta is currently a minister in the Nayab Singh Saini government. Earlier this year, the Forbes list of the 10 wealthiest women in India named Savitri Jindal as the richest woman in the country.
Naveen Jindal wrote on X ahead of joining the BJP in New Delhi at the party headquarters in the presence of its general secretary, Vinod Tawde, “I represented Congress party in Parliament as Kurukshetra MP for 10 years. I thank the Congress leadership and the then Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh. Today, I am resigning from the primary membership of the Congress Party.”
Notably, Naveen’s company, Jindal Steel and Power Limited, is being probed by the Central Bureau of Investigation in a case pertaining to irregularities in the allocation of a Jharkhand coal block. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) is also investigating the money laundering charges against his company in connection with the allocation of the coal block.
