Jindal was born in
Hisar, Haryana, on 9 March 1970. He was the youngest of the four sons of the late industrialist-philanthropist-politician
Om Prakash Jindal and
Savitri Jindal. Both of them were ministers in the
Government of Haryana. Jindal studied at
Campus School, CCS HAU and
Delhi Public School before graduating in Commerce from
Hans Raj College,
Delhi University in 1990. He completed his
MBA at the
University of Texas at Dallas in 1992. There he served first as Student Government vice president, then president, at the same time earning the Student Leader of the Year Award. His father was born into a farming family in Haryana's
Hisar district, and became the founder of the steel and power conglomerate, the O.P. Jindal Group. Om Prakash Jindal contested elections to the
Haryana Legislative Assembly and won in 1991, 2000 and 2005; he also contested elections to the
Lok Sabha from Haryana's Kurukshetra constituency in 1996 and won. He served as a minister in the
Government of Haryana until he died in a helicopter crash in 2005, aged 74. After his death, her wife
Savitri Jindal joined politics and contested the
Haryana Legislative Assembly elections from
Hisar in 2005 and 2009 from the ticket of the
Indian National Congress and won both terms. She was appointed as a minister in the
Government of Haryana. She was elected in 2024 from Hisar as an independent member. She is the Chairperson Emeritus of
Jindal Stainless Limited. Naveen is married to Shallu Jindal. The couple has two children, a son and a daughter. Naveen has eight siblings, including Prithviraj Jindal,
Sajjan Jindal and Ratan Jindal. Prithviraj Jindal is the Chairman (Non Executive) of Jindal SAW Ltd. Sajjan Jindal is the Chairman of JSW Group.
Right to display the Indian national flag In 1992, Naveen Jindal hoisted the Indian national flag at his factory in Raigarh, Chhattisgarh (then Madhya Pradesh). The local administration objected, citing the Flag Code of India, which restricted flag hoisting by private citizens to specific occasions. In response, Jindal filed a petition in the Delhi High Court, arguing that such restrictions were not law and violated the constitutional right to freedom of expression under Article 19(1)(a). The Delhi High Court ruled in Jindal’s favor in 1995, stating that the Flag Code was a set of executive instructions and not enforceable law. The court held that flying the national flag was a form of expression protected under the Constitution. The Union Government appealed the decision, and the matter was heard by the Supreme Court. In its 2004 judgment, the Supreme Court upheld the High Court’s decision, affirming that the right to fly the national flag was indeed part of the fundamental right to freedom of expression, provided it adhered to the Flag Code of India. Jindal’s efforts in the legal battle are widely regarded as pivotal in making it a right for all Indian citizens to display the national flag on any day. He has since advocated for declaring 23 January—the date of the Supreme Court ruling—as “National Flag Day”. ==Business==