Anant Geete

Anant Geete
Member of Shiv Sena's National Executive
In office January 23, 2018 – February 10, 2023
Minister of Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises
In office 26 May 2014 – 30 May 2019
Prime Minister	Narendra Modi
Preceded by	Praful Patel
Succeeded by	Arvind Sawant
Minister of Power
In office 26 August 2002 – 22 May 2004
Prime Minister	Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Preceded by	Suresh Prabhu
Succeeded by	P. M. Sayeed
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
In office 2009–2019
Preceded by	Constituency created
Succeeded by	Sunil Tatkare
Constituency	Raigad
In office 1996–2009
Preceded by	Govindrao Nikam
Succeeded by	Constituency abolished
Constituency	Ratnagiri
Personal details
Born	(1951-06-02) 2 June 1951 (age 73) Tisangi
Nationality	Indian
Political party	Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray)
Spouse	Ashwinee
Residence	Mumbai
As of May, 2014 Source: [1]

Anant Gangaram Geete (born 2 June 1951) is an Indian politician and was the Union Cabinet Minister for Heavy Industries and Public Sector Enterprises during 2014 - 2019 in 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.^[1]

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 the Raigad, Maharashtra. In the 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 constituency in Maharashtra for four terms from 11th Lok Sabha to 14th Lok Sabha.