BJP leader and richest Indian woman with$ 33 billion net worth, Savitri Jindal, whose youthful son Naveen Jindal is also in the fray, on Saturday cast her vote at her birthplace Hisar in Haryana.
Besides former state minister Savitri Jindal( 74), who’s the speaker of the Jindal Group, innovated by her late hubby, Om Prakash Jindal, in 1979, Chief Minister Nayab Saini and his precursor Manohar Lal Khattar were among the early choosers to cast their votes at their separate polling stations.
After casting the vote, Savitri told the media that the country has developed at a fast pace under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government.
putatively confident about the BJP’s prospects in the general choices, she added, “ Prime Minister Modi will be tagged for a third successive term. ”
Savitri’s youthful son Naveen Jindal( 54) is the BJP’s seeker from Kurukshetra, the seat he represented between 2004 and 2014.
Savitri and her son switched from the Congress to the BJP in March, ending their nearly two- decade association with the Congress.
Jindal is taking on AAP seeker and former Rajya Sabha MP Sushil Gupta. The AAP is querying the Lok Sabha choices in Haryana in an alliance with Congress and has been given Kurukshetra. The Congress is querying on the remaining nine seats in alliance with AAP.
Savitri joined politics following the death of her hubby won the 2005 Hisar assembly bypoll and joined the Haryana government.
latterly, she won the Assembly pates from Hisar in 2009 and came a minister in 2013.
Polling started at 7a.m. across all the 10 Lok Sabha seats and a bypoll of the Karnal Assembly seat amid tight security in the sixth and penultimate phase of the general choices. It’ll continue till 6p.m.
