Congress leader and former MP Naveen Jindal on Sunday announced his resignation from the party and joined the BJP, weeks before polling for the Lok Sabha elections.
The chairman of Jindal Steel and Power entered Lok Sabha in 2004 from Haryana’s Kurukshetra seat and was reelected in the 2009 polls.
In an X post, Jindal thanked the Congress leadership and former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh.
wrote, “I represented Congress Party in Parliament as MP from Kurukshetra for 10 years. I thank the Congress leadership and the then Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh. Today I am resigning from the primary membership of the Congress Party.”
After joining the BJP, Jindal said he wanted to contribute to the ‘Viksit Bharat’ dream of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
“Today is a very important day of my life. I am proud that I joined the BJP today and I will be able to serve the nation under the leadership of PM Modi. I want to contribute to the ‘Viksit Bharat’ dream of PM Modi,” he said.
The industrialist had also served as a member of various committees of the Parliament during his tenure as Lok Sabha MP.
“It is a matter of fortune for me that BJP has given me this opportunity. Today, on the auspicious occasion of Holi, my aim is to bring more happiness to the country. We will work towards making the lives of people better under the leadership of PM Modi. I have full confidence that we are all trying to make our India a developed India and we will get success in it. Whatever responsibility the BJP will give me, I will fulfil that responsibility well,” he said.
Jindal said he was completely separated from any political party for the last 10 years and his decision would not impact Congress.
“I have been with Congress for the last 10 years. I was not active in the party, I have not attended any of their programs in the last 10 years and I have been completely separated from any political party for the last 10 years. I was only focused on my work, social work, and university. So I don’t think that my resignation will make any difference to them (Congress) because I neither had any charge there nor was I ever an official of any kind in the party. It’s been 10 years since I was there, I fulfilled my responsibilities there and for the last 10 years, I have been completely away from the Congress Party. I am not active in any way, so I don’t think it will make any difference to them. Now that I am coming into political life and I have joined the BJP, so now by following the policies of the BJP, we all together will try to build the India of our dreams,” he said.
(With inputs from ANI)
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