Savitri Jindal Haryana Election Results 2024: Ex-minister and India’s richest woman wins Hisar seat by 19,000 votes

Haryana Election Results 2024: Independent candidate Savitri Jindal won the Hisar assembly seat in Haryana.

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Updated8 Oct 2024, 02:58 PM IST
Haryana assembly election reuslts: Savitri Jindal wins Hisar seat
Haryana assembly election reuslts: Savitri Jindal wins Hisar seat

Haryana Election Results 2024: Savitri Jindal, India's richest woman and an independent candidate, won Hisar constituency in Haryana by 19,000 votes on Tuesday.

After 12 rounds of counting, Jindal was leading with 49,231 votes. Congress candidate Ram Niwas Rara received 30,290 votes. BJP candidate and outgoing MLA Kamal Gupta stood third with 17,385 votes.

Around 420 voter opted for NOTA option.

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Who is Savitri Jindal?

Savitri Jindal is the mother of BJP's Kurukshetra MP Naveen Jindal. Forbes India listed Savitri, the wife of noted industrialist late O P Jindal, as the richest woman in the country this year, having a net worth of USD 29.1 billion.

Why did Jindal contest as an independent?

Savitri Jindal quit Congress in March this year when her son Naveen Jindal also left the party and later joined the BJP. Jindal was an aspirant for a poll ticket from the party for the Haryana Assembly elections from Hisar. However, the party renominated sitting MLA and state minister Kamal Gupta from the seat. Later, Savitri Jindal filed her nomination for the Hisar seat as an Independent. 

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Previous stints

— Savitri Jindal was elected twice as an MLA from the Hisar seat.

— She represented Hisar in the Haryana Assembly for the first time in 2005 as a Congress MLA.

— She was re-elected from the seat in 2009.

—She was made a minister in the Bhupinder Singh Hooda government in 2013.

What Savitri Jindal said after filing her nomination

After 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 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," Savitri Jindal said.

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