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Jayashree Banerjee
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Office Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha





Term start 1999
Term end 2004
Predecessor Baburao Paranjpe
Successor Rakesh Singh



Constituency Jabalpur


Born 1938-7-02 (age 88)
Born Allahabad, United Provinces, British India (present Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India)



Nationality Indian



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Children 4
Alma mater University of Allahabad



Jayashree Banerjee (born 2 July 1938[1]) is a leader of Bharatiya Janata Party from Madhya Pradesh, and a former member of parliament.

She contested Madhya Pradesh Vidhan Sabha election in 1972 as a member of Bharatiya Jana Sangh from Jabalpur Cantonment seat but lost.[2] She was elected to Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly in 1977 (Jabalpur Central, Janata Party member, pre-BJP days), 1990 and 1993 from Pashchim Jabalpur. She served as cabinet minister in Government of Madhya Pradesh from 1977 to 1980. She was a member of 13th Lok Sabha (1999–2004), elected from Jabalpur.

She is the mother-in-law of the current BJP President J. P. Nadda.[3]

References

  1. Amrit Mahotsava of Jayashree Banerjee observed in Jabalpur. Kamal Sandesh Fortnightly Magazine(16 August 2012).
  2. Madhya Pradesh Assembly Election Results in 1972. www.elections.in. Retrieved 12 December 2020.
  3. Himachal setbacks to Delhi rise — how Modi-Shah favourite JP Nadda became BJP chief, Arnimesh, Shanker. ThePrint(20 January 2020). Retrieved 12 December 2020.


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