Anant Geete

Anant Geete

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Anant Geete Profile

  • Name:
  • Anant Geete
  • Born:
  • June 2, 1951
  • Father:
  • Gangaram Sambhaji Geete
  • Mother:
  • Ananti Bai

Anant Geete Biography

Anant Geete is a noted politician from Raigad constituency in Maharashtra and a current cabinet minister of 16th Lok Sabha. He has been elected six times to Indian parliament and thus one of the most experienced parliamentarians of the nation. In the 2014 General elections it witnessed his win over Maharashtra Irrigation Minister Sunil Tatkare, by a very narrow margin of approximately 2,110 votes. But in the previous general elections, he reached parliament after defeating the then sitting MP and former Cabinet Minister A. R. Antulay, by a huge margin of approximately 145000 votes from the same constituency. He is a member of the Shiv Sena (SS) political party. Earlier he represented the Ratnagiri constituency from 11th to 14th Lok sabha. He has served as a minister in the previous NDA government too and is widely regarded as a loyal member of Shiv Sena.

 

He was born in Mumbai on June 2, 1951. He was born to Ananti Bai and Gangaram Sambhaji Geete. He is a matriculate and is an agriculturist by profession. He served as the Councillor of Municipal Corporation, Mumbai during the period 1985 to 1992 and was the Chairman, Standing Committee on Municipal Corporation for last 2 years. Later he got elected to 11th Lok sabha elections as a member of Siva Sena Party. It was for the first time he got elected to parliament. Later he got elected to Parliament during the years – 1998, 1999, 2004, 2009 and 2014, thus serving 5 terms and got elected for his 6th term too.

 

Under Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s government, he served as Union Minister of State, Ministry of Finance, Banking and Expenditure and Union Cabinet Minister, Power. As per latest news reports, he will be included in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s cabinet.

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Updated: September 02, 2014

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