Sureshkumar Bhikamchand Jain, better known as Sureshdada Jain, is an Indian politician from Jalgaon,

Maharashtra Maharashtra (; , abbr. MH or Maha) is a states and union territories of India, state in the western India, western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau. Maharashtra is the List of states and union te ...

. He changed his party affiliation a number of times in his political career and has been elected to the

Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha The Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha or the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly is the lower house of the legislature of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is situated in the Nariman Point area of South Mumbai in the capital Mumbai. Presently, 288 memb ...

for a record nine times. He was a minister in Maharashtra government and was a main conspirator in ''Jalgaon Gharkul Ghotala'' ().

Political career

Jain was elected from Jalgaon constituency in 1980 as an Indian National Congress (Indira) candidate, in 1985 as an Indian Congress (Socialist) candidate, in 1990 as an Indian Congress (Socialist) – Sarat Chandra Sinha candidate, in 1995 as an Indian National Congress candidate, in 1999 as a

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 ...

candidate, in 2004, as a Nationalist Congress Party candidate and in 2009, he was elected from Jalgaon City constituency as a

candidate. 1980 to 2014 Elected nine times consecutively as MLA to the State of Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. During this period, he has been elected / selected to different political positions as under: In the 1990s Jain was in the

party and served as a state minister. He was a prominent leader for Shivsena in North Maharashtra.

Jalgaon Housing Scam

In 1996, Jain was the main accused in the

Jalgaon housing scam The Jalgaon housing scam, sometimes called the Jalgaon Gharkul scam ( mr, जळगाव घरकुल घोटाळा), was the illicit diverting of approximately in loaned public municipal funds by the Jalgaon Municipal Corporation, in ...

and was sentenced to jail. Jalgaon police arrested him in March 2012 on the on the basis of inquiry report submitted by then Jalgaon municipal commissioner Pravin Gedam. The Jalgaon district court found him guilty, convicted him in this crime and sentenced fine of 110

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with seven years of imprisonment.

Positions held

* 1980: Elected to Maharashtra Legislative Assembly * 1985: Elected to Maharashtra Legislative Assembly * 1990: Elected to Maharashtra Legislative Assemblybam * 1995: Elected to Maharashtra Legislative Assembly * 1995: Cabinet Minister, Maharashtra State Government * 1999: Elected to Maharashtra Legislative Assembly * 2004: Elected to Maharashtra Legislative Assembly * 2009: Elected to Maharashtra Legislative Assembly source:

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