Former Haryana Minister Savitri Jindal quits Congress

Her son and industrialist Naveen Jindal, who is a former Congress MP, had joined the BJP last Sunday and was named the party’s Kurukshetra Lok Sabha candidate.

Announcing her decision to quit the Congress in a social media post late on Wednesday night, Jindal, 84, said, “I represented the people of Hisar for 10 years as an MLA and have served Haryana 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 was listed as the richest woman in the country by Forbes India this year.

In a post on X, Saini said, “We welcome into the BJP family veteran Congress leader, former minister in Haryana government, famous social worker Smt. Savitri Jindal ji and her daughter Smt. Seema Jindal ji.”