India's richest woman Savitri Jindal on Thursday, March 28, joined the Bharatiya Janata Party. She joined the saffron party in presence of Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini, former chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar and other BJP leaders.
Her daughter Seema Jindal Jajodia has also joined the saffron party today.
Former Haryana minister Jindal quit the Congress on March 27. "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," she said.
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, Savitri Jindal, who is the wife of late industrialist and former minister OP Jindal, has a net worth of 29.1 billion USD (one billion = ₹100 crore).
On March 24, her son and former Congress MP Naveen Jindal joined the saffron party and he was named as the party's candidate from Kurukshetra Lok Sabha seat in Haryana.
Jindal, who represented the Kurukshetra constituency in Lok Sabha from 2004-14 as a Congress MP, quit the opposition party on Sunday, and said he wants to contribute to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's agenda of 'Viksit Bharat'.
He joined the BJP at its Delhi headquarters in the presence of its general secretary Vinod Tawde.
In a post on X in Hindi, Naveen Jindal had said, "I represented Congress Party in Parliament as MP from Kurukshetra 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."
First Published: Mar 28, 2024 10:34 AM IST
