India's 'richest woman' Savitri Jindal is leading from the Hisar assembly seat in Haryana, as per early trends. She is contesting the elections as an independent candidate. Jindal is fighting against Bharatiya Janata Party's Kamal Gupta who has served as Hisar's MP since 2014.
She previously held the Hisar seat on a Congress ticket from 2005 to 2013 but was de-throned by Kamal Gupta. Now the two electoral rivals face off in the same constituency once again. Her son, Naveen Jindal is BJP MP from the Kurukshetra constituency.
When asked about his mother Savitri Jindal contesting the polls as an independent candidate, Naveen Jindal told PTI, “It is going to be a one-sided contest which Mata Savitri Jindal will win by a big margin.”
Kamal Gupta has served as the cabinet minister for health, urban housing and development as well as aviation in Haryana. Savitri Jindal has also previously held the position of Haryana's minister of revenue and disaster management.
Other than Jindal and Gupta, Congress's Ram Niwas Rara is also contesting from the Hisar seat.
The key parties in the fray are the BJP, the Congress, the Aam Aadmi Party, INLD-BSP and JJP-Azad Samaj Party. However, most seats will see a direct fight between the BJP and the Congress. Polling for the 90 seats of the Haryana Assembly ended on October 5. Counting of votes for assembly elections in Haryana will begin at 8 am. Postal ballots will be counted first, followed by EVM counting after 30 minutes.