Is Naveen Jindal’s high-risk election gambit good for business?

By contesting elections, the JSPL chairman is mixing politics and business. The consequences for the company could be dire—win or lose.

Naveen Jindal is in the electoral fray, again. And, it is in this regard that he sticks out compared to the rest of India Inc. Being close to the powers that be is one thing, contesting elections quite another. 

His company, Jindal Steel & Power Ltd (JSPL), with a revenue of Rs 58,115 crore in the 2023-24 fiscal year, a market cap of Rs 1.08 lakh crore as on 27 May and more than 20,000 employees across three continents needs him. More so because it recently lost both its managing director and chief financial officer in the space of a …

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