Former Haryana minister Savitri Jindal resigns from Congress
Chandigarh, March 28 (IANS/WISHAVWARTA) Days after her industrialist son Naveen Jindal joined the BJP, former Haryana minister Savitri Jindal, 84, quit the Congress. Chairperson emeritus of the OP Jindal Group, Savitri Jindal with a net worth of $29.1 billion is likely to join the Bharatiya Janata Party. She announced her decision to quit the Congress on a social media post. “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 wrote in a post in Hindi. Her son Naveen Jindal, who represented the Kurukshetra constituency in Lok Sabha from 2004-14 as a Congress MP, will contest Lok Sabha elections 2024 from the same seat on the BJP ticket. The BJP had won all 10 seats of Haryana in 2019 Lok Sabha polls. –
