Savitri Jindal, India's richest woman, resigned from the Congress party on Thursday, March 28.

Jindal is likely to join the Bharatiya Janata Party, 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 10 richest women 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 Lok Sabha Elections 2024 from the same seat, but on BJP ticket.

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