‘After making zero contributions…”: Congress slams Naveen Jindal after BJP announces his candidacy 

Congress Basic Secretary Jairam Ramesh slammed industrialist Naveen Jindal and mentioned the latter wanted a “giant-size washer”. Jindal, former two-term Kurukshetra MP from Congrees, joined the BJP. Jindal will contest from Kurukshetra as BJP candidate.

Taking a dig on the industrialist, Ramesh mentioned: “If you want a giant-size washer, this needed to occur. And after making ZERO contributions to the get together within the final ten years, saying I’m resigning from it’s a huge joke.”

Jindal, who’s the Chairman of Jindal Metal and Energy Restricted and Chancellor of OP Jindal World College, made his resignation announcement three days after assuming the position of president of the Indian Metal Affiliation (ISA), the apex physique for metal producers. 

Jindal was being investigated by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in a case pertaining to irregularities in allocation of a Jharkhand coal block. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) was investigating the cash laundering expenses in relation to the allocation of the coal block.

Jindal represented the Kurukshetra constituency within the Lok Sabha for 2 phrases. Nonetheless, he misplaced to the BJP’s Raj Kumar Saini within the 2014 nationwide elections and was not fielded by the Congress in 2019. The BJP had received all 10 seats of Haryana in 2019 Lok Sabha polls.

Saying his resignation from the Congress get together in a publish on ‘X’, Jindal mentioned: “I represented the Congress Get together in Parliament as MP from Kurukshetra for 10 years. I thank the Congress management and the then Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh. In the present day I’m resigning from the first membership of the Congress Get together.”