Anant Geete
Birth date2 June 1951 (age 75)
Birth placeTisangi, Bombay State, India
OfficeMember of Shiv Sena's National Executive
Term startJanuary 23, 2018
Term endFebruary 10, 2023
Office 1Minister of Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises
Prime minister 1Narendra Modi
Term start 126 May 2014
Term end 130 May 2019
Predecessor 1Praful Patel
Successor 1Arvind Sawant
Office 2Minister of Power
Prime minister 2Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Term start 226 August 2002
Term end 222 May 2004
Predecessor 2Suresh Prabhu
Successor 2P. M. Sayeed
Office 3Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
Term start 410 May 1996
Term end 416 May 2009
Predecessor 4Govindrao Nikam
Successor 4Constituency abolished
Constituency 4Ratnagiri
Term start 316 May 2009
Term end 323 May 2019
Predecessor 3Constituency created
Successor 3Sunil Tatkare
Constituency 3Raigad
PartyShiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray)
SpouseAshwinee
DateMay
Year2014
Sourcehttps://web.archive.org/web/20060620065543/http://164.100.24.208/ls/lsmember/biodata.asp?mpsno=136

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

He was born in Tisangi, a village in Ratnagiri District, Maharashtra.

Political career

Positions held in public life

1985–92Councillor, Municipal Corporation, Mumbai
1990–92Chairman, Standing Committee on Municipal Corporation Mumbai
1996Elected to 11th Lok Sabha from Ratnagiri (1st term).
Chief Whip, Shiv Sena Parliamentary party
1996–98Member, Committee on Urban and Rural Development
1998Re-elected to 12th Lok Sabha (2nd term)
1998–99Member, Committee on External Affairs and its Sub-Committee-III.
Member Consultative Committee, Ministry of Human Resource Development
1999Re-elected to 13th Lok Sabha (3rd term).
Leader, Shiv Sena Parliamentary Party
1999–2000Chairman, Committee on Urban and Rural Development. Member, Business Advisory Committee.
Member, General Purposes Committee. Member, Railway Convention Committee.
1999–2001Member, Committee on Estimates
2000–2002Member, Consultative Committee. Ministry of Civil Aviation
Jul–Aug 2002Union Minister of State, Ministry of Finance, Banking and Expenditure
Aug 2002 – May 2004Union Cabinet Minister, Power
2004Re-elected to 14th Lok Sabha (4th term)
Member, General Purposes Committee. Chairman, Committee on Chemicals and Fertilizers
Member, Committee on Petitions
Aug 2007 onwardsChairman, Committee on Chemicals & Fertilizers
2009Re-elected to 15th Lok Sabha (5th term)
Leader, Shiv Sena Parliamentary Party, Lok Sabha
23 Sep 2009Chairman, Committee on Petitions
Member, Committee on Food, Consumer Affairs & Public Distribution. Member, Business Advisory Committee
Member, Konkan Railway Users' Consultative Committee
2014Re-elected to 16th Lok Sabha (6th term)
28 May 2014Union Cabinet Minister, Heavy Industries & Public Sector Enterprises
2018Appointed Leader of Shiv Sena Party[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Political Career of Anant Geete"
  2. ^ "एकनाथ शिंदे, आनंदराव अडसूळ, अनंत गीते, चंद्रकांत खैरे, आदित्य ठाकरे यांची सेनेच्या नेतेपदी वर्णी"

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