DW BUREAU / Hisar

Detailing the importance of women's professional participation in decision-making bodies as a crucial component of good governance and banking high on her leadership in political and public life, Independent candidate for Haryana Assembly polls, Savitri Jindal, India's wealthiest woman and controls OP Jindal Group, is making waving waves.

She's in the fray from Hisar, the urban general seat with a 73 per cent literacy rate, which she represented for two consecutive terms from 2005. She twice became a minister for nine years in the Bhupinder Hooda-led Congress government.

In these elections, she is seeking one last chance to serve the people and complete the developmental works of Hisar as the people's representative. Building up her campaign on faith, change and development of Hisar, soft-spoken Savitri Jindal, 75, who's known as the "mother" of social work, wrote on X on Tuesday, "The hard work and honesty of women is inspiring for all of us. The dedication and affection with which they take care of their home and family is unparalleled."

In a video message, she said that women in executive government positions can handle affairs more professionally like they perform household jobs.

For Savitri Jindal, politics is a means of service. She says when 'we meet people, only then we can understand their joys and sorrows and only then we get an opportunity to serve them better.'

Richest woman with $33 billion net worth, Savitri Jindal's youngest son Naveen Jindal is the BJP's parliamentarian from the state's Yamunanagar.

She's the chairperson of the Jindal Group, founded by her late husband, Om Prakash Jindal, in 1979. After casting the vote for the parliamentary poll on May 25 in the Lok Sabha elections, she told the media that the country has developed at a fast pace under Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government. In the underway Assembly polls, she was confident about her nomination from Hisar as the BJP candidate, but the party retains its two-time legislator Kamal Gupta, who defeated Savitri Jindal in 2014 by nearly 13,000 votes. Gupta, the outgoing state Health Minister, is eyeing a hat-trick of victories. The Congress has fielded Ram Niwas Rara, belonging to the Other Backward Class (OBC).
(editor@dailyworld.in)