Savitri Jindal represented the Hisar constituency for a period of 10 years and also served as a minister in the Haryana government. She has resigned from the primary membership of the Congressprior to Lok Sabha polls. She represented the Hisar constituency for a period of 10 years and also served as a minister in the Haryana government which is a huge setback for the Congress, OP Jindal Group chairperson and former Haryana minister Savitri Jindal on Wednesday late night announced that she is quitting the grand old party ahead of the upcoming general polls and undertake canvassing for her son Naveen Jindal contesting Lok Sabha polls from Kurukshetra. Sources also reveal that Ex-Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda may also not contest LS elections 2024.

While talking to the media Savitri Jindal said that she represented the people of Hisar for 10 years as an MLA and have served Haryana state selflessly as a minister. She said that the people of Hisar are my family and on the advice of my family, I have resigned from the primary membership of the Congress party, but will always be grateful to the Congress leadership for its support and to all my colleagues who always gave me their support and respect.  Naveen Jindal too had resigned from Congress a couple of days earlier, joined BJP and offered Lok Sabha seat from Kurukshetra constituency which was earlier represented by Him twice in 2004 and 2009. Savitri Jindal’s resignation from the primary membership of the Congress party comes days after her son and Jindal Steel and Power Limited chairman Naveen Jindal joined the Bharatiya Janata Party now contesting from the Kurukshetra Lok Sabha seat as a BJP candidate in the upcoming general elections.

Regarding Savitri Jindal’s political career, she represented the Hisar constituency for a period of 10 years and also served as a minister in the Haryana government. In 2005, she was elected to the Haryana Vidhan Sabha from the Hisar constituency after the death of her husband and Jindal Group founder OP Jindal in a plane crash. She was re-elected from Hisar in 2009 and was appointed the cabinet minister in the Haryana government in October 2013. In the previous cabinet, she served as the Minister of State for Revenue and Disaster Management, Consolidation, Rehabilitation, and Housing as well as the Minister of State for Urban Local Bodies and Housing in 2006. She, however, lost from Hisar in the 2014 Haryana assembly elections. Touted as one of India’s richest woman, Savitr Jindali is the 56th richest person in the world and the world’s seventh richest mother, besides being the chairperson of the OP Jindal Group, Savitri Jindal is also the president of Maharaja Agrasen College, Agroha.