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Savitri Jindal

Savitri Jindal

About Savitri Jindal

Savitri Jindal

Savitri Jindal, 74, is the mother of industrialist Naveen Jindal, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s Kurukshetra MP, and the widow of industrialist O P Jindal.
 
Forbes India listed Savitri as the richest woman in the country this year, with a net worth of $29.1 billion.
 
Career
She is the chairperson of the steel and power conglomerate, O P Jindal Group. Savitri represented Hisar as a Congress MLA twice.
 
Background
In 2005, she had won a bypoll after her husband, the sitting legislator from the seat, died in a helicopter crash. She won in 2009 and served as a minister in the Bhupinder Hooda government. O P Jindal had won the seat consecutively from 1991 to 2005.
 
In March 2024, she joined the Bharatiya Janata Party ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha election. The ruling BJP denied her a ticket and fielded minister Kamal Gupta from Hisar. On the last day for filing the nominations, Savitri Jindal threw her hat in the poll ring as an Independent candidate from Hisar.

Latest Updates on Savitri Jindal

In the newly-elected 90-member Haryana Assembly, 96 per cent MLAs (86) are crorepatis, while 13 per cent (12) have criminal cases against them, according to an analysis by poll rights body ADR. An analysis of the affidavits of all the 90 winning candidates by the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) and Haryana Election Watch show a slight rise in the number of crorepati MLAs, from 93 per cent in 2019 to 96 per cent this time. Of the 90 MLAs, 44 per cent possess assets worth over Rs 10 crore, while only 2.2 per cent have assets below Rs 20 lakh, the data showed. The average assets per winning candidate stand at Rs 24.97 crore, marking a handsome rise from Rs 18.29 crore in 2019. Party-wise, 96 per cent BJP legislators, 95 per cent Congress MLAs, and 100 per cent of both INLD and Independent winners have declared assets exceeding Rs 1 crore. Independent MLA from Hisar Savitri Jindal tops the list with assets totalling over Rs 270 crore, followed by BJP's Shakti Rani Sharma and

Updated On: 10 Oct 2024 | 2:11 PM IST

Haryana Assembly elections: After four hours of counting, trends showed that six-time BJP MLA Anil Vij was trailing slightly in Ambala Cantt, while Savitri Jindal was leading in Hisar.

Updated On: 08 Oct 2024 | 5:02 PM IST

Savitri Jindal is contesting independently from Hisar constituency after being denied tickets by the BJP

Updated On: 05 Oct 2024 | 10:22 AM IST