Lok Sabha elections 2024: Savitri Jindal, India's richest woman quits Congress; may join BJP like son Naveen Jindal

Savitri Jindal, India's richest woman, resigned from the Congress party on Thursday, March 28. Jindal is likely to join the , days after her son Naveen Jindal, the former Congress MP, joined the saffron party ahead of the Lok Sabha elections.

Savitri has been a member of legislative assembly and a minister in the Congress government in Haryana.

Chairperson emeritus of the OP Jindal Group, Savitri Jindal, with a net worth of $29.1 billion, is India's richest woman, according to Forbes India's “top in India in 2024" list. 

Her son Naveen Jindal, who represented the Kurukshetra constituency in Lok Sabha from 2004-14 as a Congress MP, will contest from the same seat, but on BJP ticket.

The BJP had won all ten seats of Haryana in 2019 Lok Sabha polls.

After Naveen's switch, Congress General Secretary took a dig at Jindal saying that he needed a "giant-size washing machine" after resigning from the Congress party.

"When you need a giant-size washing machine this had to happen. And after making ZERO contributions to the party in the last ten years, saying I am resigning from it is a big joke," Ramesh said in a post on X.

Ramesh was purportedly referring to Jindal, and his company J (JSPL), being probed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in a case pertaining to irregularities in allocation of a Jharkhand coal block.  Naveen is the chairperson of JSPL.

“The PM wanted a Congress-mukt Bharat (India). Instead he has made a Corrupt-mukt Congress by deploying so many washing machines along with the ED and the CBI to force corrupt Congressmen to flee to his embrace," Ramesh added.

The (ED) is also investigating the money laundering charges against Jindal’s company in connection with the allocation of the coal block. In April