Savitri Jindal, 74, is the mother of industrialist Naveen Jindal, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s Kurukshetra MP, and the widow of industrialist O P Jindal.

 

Forbes India listed Savitri as the richest woman in the country this year, with a net worth of $29.1 billion.

 

Career

She is the chairperson of the steel and power conglomerate, O P Jindal Group. Savitri represented Hisar as a Congress MLA twice.

 

Background

In 2005, she had won a bypoll after her husband, the sitting legislator from the seat, died in a helicopter crash. She won in 2009 and served as a minister in the Bhupinder Hooda government. O