Anant Geete
Anant Geete | |
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Member of Shiv Sena's National Executive | |
In office January 23, 2018 – February 10, 2023 | |
Minister of Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises | |
In office 26 May 2014 – 30 May 2019 | |
Prime Minister | Narendra Modi |
Preceded by | Praful Patel |
Succeeded by | Arvind Sawant |
Minister of Power | |
In office 26 August 2002 – 22 May 2004 | |
Prime Minister | Atal Bihari Vajpayee |
Preceded by | Suresh Prabhu |
Succeeded by | P. M. Sayeed |
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha | |
In office 2009–2019 | |
Preceded by | Constituency created |
Succeeded by | Sunil Tatkare |
Constituency | Raigad |
In office 1996–2009 | |
Preceded by | Govindrao Nikam |
Succeeded by | Constituency abolished |
Constituency | Ratnagiri |
Personal details | |
Born | Tisangi, Bombay State, India | 2 June 1951
Nationality | Indian |
Political party | Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) |
Spouse | Ashwinee |
Residence | Mumbai |
As of May, 2014 Source: [1] |
Anant Gangaram Geete (born 2 June 1951) is an Indian politician and was the Union Cabinet Minister for Heavy Industries and Public Sector Enterprises during 2014 - 2019 in Narendra Modi cabinet. He is also a former Union Cabinet Minister for Power (Aug 2002 to May 2004). He is a member of the Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) political party in Maharashtra, India.[1]
He was elected six times to the Lok Sabha. In the 2009 general election, he defeated the then sitting MP and former Cabinet Minister A.R.Antulay, by a margin of 145,000 votes to win from the Raigad, Maharashtra. In the 2014 general election, he held his seat in Raigad by a margin of 2,110 votes over nearest rival, Sunil Tatkare who was then the Minister for Water Resources in Maharashtra but lost it in 2019 by a margin of 31,740 votes. He has earlier represented the Ratnagiri constituency in Maharashtra for four terms from 11th Lok Sabha to 14th Lok Sabha.
Early life
[edit]He was born in Tisangi, a village in Ratnagiri District, Maharashtra.
Political career
[edit]Positions held in public life
[edit]1985–92 | Councillor, Municipal Corporation, Mumbai |
1990–92 | Chairman, Standing Committee on Municipal Corporation Mumbai |
1996 | Elected to 11th Lok Sabha from Ratnagiri (1st term). Chief Whip, Shiv Sena Parliamentary party |
1996–98 | Member, Committee on Urban and Rural Development |
1998 | Re-elected to 12th Lok Sabha (2nd term) |
1998–99 | Member, Committee on External Affairs and its Sub-Committee-III. Member Consultative Committee, Ministry of Human Resouirce Development |
1999 | Re-elected to 13th Lok Sabha (3rd term). Leader, Shiv Sena Parliamentary Party |
1999–2000 | Chairman, Committee on Urban and Rural Development. Member, Business Advisory Committee. Member, General Purposes Committee. Member, Railway Convention Committee. |
1999–2001 | Member, Committee on Estimates |
2000–2002 | Member, Consultative Committee. Ministry of Civil Aviation |
Jul–Aug 2002 | Union Minister of State, Ministry of Finance, Banking and Expenditure |
Aug 2002 – May 2004 | Union Cabinet Minister, Power |
2004 | Re-elected to 14th Lok Sabha (4th term) Member, General Purposes Committee. Chairman, Committee on Chemicals and Fertilizers |
Aug 2007 onwards | Chairman, Committee on Chemicals & Fertilizers |
2009 | Re-elected to 15th Lok Sabha (5th term) Leader, Shiv Sena Parliamentary Party, Lok Sabha |
23 Sep 2009 | Chairman, Committee on Petitions Member, Committee on Food, Consumer Affairs & Public Distribution. Member, Business Advisory Committee |
Member, Konkan Railway Users' Consultative Committee | |
2014 | Re-elected to 16th Lok Sabha (6th term) |
28 May 2014 | Union Cabinet Minister, Heavy Industries & Public Sector Enterprises |
2018 | Appointed as Leader of Shiv Sena Party[2] |
See also
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[edit]- 1951 births
- Living people
- Shiv Sena politicians
- India MPs 1996–1997
- India MPs 1998–1999
- India MPs 1999–2004
- India MPs 2004–2009
- India MPs 2009–2014
- India MPs 2014–2019
- Marathi politicians
- Lok Sabha members from Maharashtra
- Union ministers from Maharashtra
- Narendra Modi ministry
- People from Ratnagiri
- Ministers of power of India
- Shiv Sena (UBT) politicians