Savitri Jindal first represented Hisar in the Haryana Assembly twice as Congress MLA from 2005 till 2014
Kurukshetra BJP MP Naveen Jindal’s mother Savitri Jindal on Thursday filed her nomination from Hisar seat as an Independent after she was denied ticket by the ruling party for Haryana polls.
Savitri, the wife of noted industrialist late O P Jindal, had aspired for a BJP ticket to contest the polls from Hisar but the party re-nominated sitting MLA and state minister Kamal Gupta from the seat.
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Savitri, who was listed by Forbes India as the richest woman in the country this year having a net worth of USD 29.1 billion, also announced that this would be her last election.
“I have pledged to serve Hisar for its development and transformation. The people of Hisar are my family and Om Prakash Jindal had established my relationship with this family. The Jindal family has always served Hisar. I am fully dedicated to living up to the expectations of the people and maintaining their trust,” she said.
“This is my last election; I want to fight with love and serve them,” she added.
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Polling for the 90 assembly seats in Haryana will be held on October 5 and votes will be counted on October 8. Thursday was the last day for filing nominations.
The scrutiny of the nomination papers will be done on September 13 and nominations can be withdrawn till September 16.
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WHO IS SAVITRI JINDAL?
Savitri was elected as an MLA from the Hisar seat twice. She represented Hisar in the Haryana Assembly for the first time in 2005 as a Congress MLA and was reelected from the seat in 2009. She was made a minister in the Bhupinder Singh Hooda government in 2013.
She quit the Congress in March this year when her son Naveen Jindal also left the party and later joined the BJP.
The scrutiny of the nomination papers will be conducted on September 13 and nominations can be withdrawn till September 16.
The ruling BJP is eyeing a hat-trick in the assembly polls but faces a stiff challenge from a resurgent Congress, which is looking to cash in on the anti-incumbency factor.
(with inputs from agencies)
