Savitri Jindal, mother of Bharatiya Janata Party's Kurukshetra Member of Parliament, Naveen Jindal, filed her nomination papers from Hisar Assembly constituency as an independent candidate on Thursday, the last day of the filing of nominations.
The 74-year-old Savitri is the wife of renowned industrialist late O P Jindal and has been listed as the richest woman in the country by Forbes India, this year having a net worth of USD 29.1 billion.
Filing her nomination, she said, "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."
When the BJP fielded Kamal Gupta from the Hisar Assembly segment, Savitri Jindal was asked by reporters if her contesting the seat against the ruling party would not amount to rebellion.
"It won't be considered so. I had only campaigned for my son (Naveen Jindal in the Lok Sabah polls). I have not taken any membership (of the BJP)," she then added.
Look into Savitri's political career:
Savitri Jindal was elected as an MLA from the Hisar seat twice.
She became represented Hisar in the Haryana Assembly for the first time in 2005 as a Congress MLA, was reelected from the seat in 2009, and was made a minister in the 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.
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