Geeta Bharat Jain (born 5 July 1964) is an Indian politician representing the

Bharatiya Janata Party The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP; ; ) is a political party in India, and one of the two major Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. Since 2014, it has been the ruling political party in India under Narendra Modi ...

. She won election as an independent candidate. She afterwards gave support to the

Shiv Sena Shiv Sena ( IAST: ''Śiva Sēnā'') () was a right-wing to far-right Marathi regionalist and Hindu ultranationalist political party in India founded in 1966 by cartoonist Bal Thackeray. Originally emerging from nativist movements in Bom ...

-led government. After one year, she joined Shiv Sena. She is member of the 14th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from

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constituency. She served as a Mayor of the city of Mira-Bhayandar from February 2015 to August 2017. After increasing internal conflicts in Shiv Sena, on 22 June 2022 she rejoined the BJP.

Early life

Jain was born in

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and raised in Mumbai suburb

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. She graduated from PVT Polytechnic College, Mumbai with a Diploma of Medical Laboratory Technology in 1984. Jain was the elder sister among three siblings. Her father ran a retail cloth shop at Jogeshwari. After completing her schooling at M.A. high school, Andheri, she completed her secondary studies at Bhavans College, Mumbai. Jain also attended PVT Polytechnic College, Santacruz, Mumbai to pursue the Diploma of Medical Laboratory Technology (D.M.L.T.) In August 1984 she married Bharat Jain. They have two daughters.

Positions held

* 2002: Elected as corporator in Mira-Bhayandar Municipal Corporation (1st term) * 2012: Re-Elected as corporator in Mira-Bhayandar Municipal Corporation (2nd term) * 2015: Elected as mayor of Mira-Bhayandar Municipal Corporation * 2017: Re-Elected as corporator in Mira-Bhayandar Municipal Corporation (3rd term) * 2019: Elected as member of Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Jain, Geeta Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Maharashtra Living people 1964 births Maharashtra MLAs 2019–2024