INDIA’S RICHEST WOMAN IS
NEW HARYANA MINISTER
The country’s richest woman, Savitri Jindal, was Tuesday ,29th
October,2013,inducted as a minister in the Haryana cabinet by Chief Minister
Bhupinder Singh Hooda.This is the second time that she has become a minister in
the Hooda government. She was earlier a minister of state in the 2005-09 Hooda
government.. Jindal is a legislator from the ruling Congress from Hisar
assembly constituency and is the mother of industrial tycoon and high-profile
parliament member Naveen Jindal (Lok Sabha member from Kurukshetra).was listed
by a leading business publication as the country’s richest woman as she lords
over a multi-billion rupee steel and power sector empire and is the chairperson
of the Jindal Group.Her name also figures in the Top-100 richest people in the
world.
Savitri Jindal’s industrialist-cum-politician husband
O.P.Jindal, who too was a minister in the Hooda government, was killed when his
private helicopter crashed near the Haryana-Uttar Pradesh border March 2005..
Jindal was sworn-in on Tuesday along with the other new minister, Aftab Ahmed,
who is a legislator from Nuh assembly constituency in Mewat district and the
only Muslim face in the Hooda ministry.Two ministerial slots in the Hooda
government were vacant ever since ministers O.P.Jain and Gopal Kanda resigned
in June 2011 and August 2012 respectively, after their names figured in
separate criminal cases.The 90-member Haryana assembly goes to polls in October
next year.this year, Ms. Jindal was directed by the Punjab and Haryana High
Court to vacate her government accommodation, which she had been occupying
unauthorised.She has been occupying a ministerial bungalow in Chandigarh’s
upscale Sector 7, even though she ceased to be a minister in 2009.The court
said that eviction proceedings be started if she did not vacate the house. A
penalty of Rs.89 lakh was also slapped on her for occupying the house.
Prof. John Kurakar
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