Jayant Kumar Malaiya

Political career Malaiya was elected from Damoh Legislative Assembly for the first time in the sub-election for the seventh assembly in 1984. He was re-elected to the ninth, tenth, eleventh and twelfth Assemblies in 1990, 1993, 1998 and 2003 respectively. Malaiya was elected for the sixth time from the same constituency in the 2008 election. He was elected as a member of Damoh for the fourteenth Assembly in 2013 and 2023 for the sixteenth Assembly.

Service to MP as a Minister

Malaiya was Minister of State for Housing and Environment (Independent Charge) during the Ninth Legislative Assembly. He was a special invitee to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) District Damoh twice, the President of the State BJP Work Committee. He chaired the Loklokha Committee in Eleventh Legislative Assembly of the state. Malaiya joined the Cabinet of then Chief Minister Uma Bharti on 28 June 2004 and was the Minister of Urban Administration and Development. He was sworn in as a minister in the Cabinet of Chief Minister Babulal Gaur on 27 August 2004. Malaiya was re-elected as a minister in the Cabinet of then Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan on 4 December 2005.

Jayant Malaiya served as the Minister in the Cabinet of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan on 20 December 2008. He took oath as Cabinet minister on 21 December 2013. He served as the Finance Minister until Dec 2018.