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{{short description|Indian politician}}
{{Use Indian English|date=February 2023}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2015}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| image = Anant Geete in April 2017.jpg
| name = Anant Geete
| native_name =
| caption =
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1951|6|2|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Tisangi]], [[Bombay State]], India
| residence = [[Mumbai]]
| death_date =
| death_place =
| office = [[Shiv Sena (1966–2022)|Member of Shiv Sena's National Executive]]
| term_start = January 23, 2018
| term_end = February 10, 2023
| office1 = [[Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises|Minister of Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises]]
| primeminister1 = [[Narendra Modi]]
| term_start1 = 26 May 2014
| term_end1 = 30 May 2019
| predecessor1 = [[Praful Patel]]
| successor1 = [[Arvind Sawant]]
| office2 = [[Ministry of Power (India)|Minister of Power]]
| primeminister2 = [[Atal Bihari Vajpayee]]
| term_start2 = 26 August 2002
| term_end2 = 22 May 2004
| predecessor2 = [[Suresh Prabhu]]
| successor2 = [[P. M. Sayeed]]
| office3 = [[Member of Parliament (India)|Member of Parliament]], [[Lok Sabha]]
| term_start4 = 10 May 1996
| term_end4 = 16 May 2009
| predecessor4 = [[Govindrao Nikam]]
| successor4 = ''Constituency abolished''
| constituency4 = [[Ratnagiri (Lok Sabha constituency)|Ratnagiri]]
| term_start3 = 16 May 2009
| term_end3 = 23 May 2019
| predecessor3 = ''Constituency created''
| successor3 = [[Sunil Tatkare]]
| constituency3 = [[Raigad (Lok Sabha constituency)|Raigad]]
| party = [[Shiv Sena (UBT)|Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray)]]
| nationality = {{flagicon|India}} [[Indian people|Indian]]
| education =
| religion =
| spouse = Ashwinee
| children =
| website =
| footnotes =
| date = May|
| year = 2014|
| source = https://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 [[Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises (India)|Union Cabinet Minister for Heavy Industries and Public Sector Enterprises]] during 2014 - 2019 in [[Narendra Modi]] cabinet. He is also a former [[Ministry of Power (India)|Union Cabinet Minister for Power]] (Aug 2002 to May 2004). He is a member of the [[Shiv Sena (UBT)|Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray)]] political party in Maharashtra, India.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.elections.in/political-leaders/anant-geete.html|title= Political Career of Anant Geete
}}</ref>

He was elected six times to the Lok Sabha. In the [[2009 Indian general election|2009 general election]], he defeated the then sitting MP and former Cabinet Minister [[A R Antulay|A.R.Antulay]], by a margin of 145,000 votes to win from the [[Raigad (Lok Sabha constituency)|Raigad, Maharashtra]]. In the [[2014 Indian general elections|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 (Lok Sabha Constituency)|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===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
| 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 (1966–2022)|Shiv Sena]] Party<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.loksatta.com/mumbai-news/aditya-thackeray-appointed-as-shiv-sena-leader-manohar-joshi-sudhi-joshi-remain-same-1620595/|title= एकनाथ शिंदे, आनंदराव अडसूळ, अनंत गीते, चंद्रकांत खैरे, आदित्य ठाकरे यांची सेनेच्या नेतेपदी वर्णी}}</ref>

|}

==See also==
* [[First Modi ministry]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/archiveofge2009/Stats/VOLI/25_ConstituencyWiseDetailedResult.pdf Election Commission of India, General Elections, 2009 (15th LOK SABHA)]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060620065543/http://164.100.24.208/ls/lsmember/biodata.asp?mpsno=136 Official biographical sketch in Parliament of India website]
* {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20140316141939/http://www.sakaaltimes.com/NewsDetails.aspx?NewsId=5597637605435053611&SectionId=4924098573178130559&SectionName=Latest%20News&NewsDate=20140228&NewsTitle=Shiv%20Sena%20releases%20first%20list%20of%20candidates Shiv Sena releases first list of candidates – Sakaal Times]}}

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