Anant Geete

Anant Gangaram Geete (born 2 June 1951) is an Indian politician and was the Union Cabinet Minister for Heavy Industries and Public Sector Enterprises between 2014 - 2019 in the 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.

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 Raigad, Maharashtra. In the 2014 general election, he held his seat in Raigad by a margin of 2,110 votes over his 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 1985–92 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 Resource 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 Member, Committee on Petitions 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 Leader of Shiv Sena Party