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Kirit Somaiya is an Indian politician and a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He is a former Member of Parliament in the Lok Sabha from Mumbai North East constituency. He was elected to the Lok Sabha in the 2014 Indian general election.
Kirit Somaiya was born on 12 February 1954 in Mumbai, India. He is 66 years old as of 2020. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Mumbai.
Kirit Somaiya is married to Uma Somaiya and has two children. He is a vegetarian and a teetotaler.
Kirit Somaiya has been actively involved in politics since the 1980s. He was a member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from 1985 to 1989. He was also a member of the Rajya Sabha from 2000 to 2006.
Kirit Somaiya has been a vocal critic of the Congress-led UPA government and has been a strong advocate of the BJP's economic policies. He has also been a vocal critic of the corruption in the government.
Kirit Somaiya has an estimated net worth of $2 million as of 2020. He has earned his wealth through his political career and other business ventures.
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Bombay, Bombay State, India (Present day Mumbai, Maharashtra, India) |
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Kirit Somaiya Height, Weight & Measurements
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Who Is Kirit Somaiya's Wife?
His wife is Medha Somaiya
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Medha Somaiya |
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Neil Somaiya |
Kirit Somaiya Net Worth
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Kirit Somaiya Social Network
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As a People’s Activist, Somaiya has made several contributions, both Social and political in nature. He founded the NGO "Yuvak Pratishthan" which has been active for over 3 decades in taking up several initiatives such as Slum Rehabilitation, Cheap and Accessible Healthcare for all, Promotion of Education and Sports.
Somaiya also founded the Investors’ Grievances Forum (IGF) in 1994, an NGO with a social objective dedicated to the protection and safeguarding of the rights of investors through education, awareness, guidance, mass campaigns and representations to regulators, govt. authorities and courts.
In 2014 Lok Sabha election, Somaiya defeated Sanjay Dina Patil of the Nationalist Congress Party by a large margin of 317,122 votes.
On 27 February 2014, the BJP announced its first list of candidates for the 2014 Lok Sabha Elections and Somaiya was fielded as the BJP candidate from Mumbai North East. He defeated the incumbent Sanjay Dina Patil of the Sharad Pawar led Nationalist Congress Party.
Somaiya was born and brought up in Mumbai in a middle – class family. He married Medha Somaiya and they have one son.
As the National Convenor of the Anti-Corruption – Scam Expose Committee of the BJP, Somaiya ran a Nationwide campaign against corruption of the ruling UPA Government and its allies where he travelled through 16 states and 100 districts exposing several scams. He has, however, been characteristically silent on scams and corruption within his own party like the Yeddyurappa scandal.
In 1999 Lok Sabha election, Somaiya defeated the incumbent Gurudas Kamat of the Indian National Congress by a margin of 7,276 votes. As a parliamentarian, he submitted the maximum number of petitions to the parliament, i.e. 11 (out of 27 total petitions presented in 13th Lok Sabha) during his tenure in Lok Sabha which was the highest number of petitions submitted by any MP in the history of Indian Parliament. He was an extremely active member of the house where during his tenure he raised a total of 832 questions in the house on several issues.
In 1995, Somaiya contested the Maharashtra Assembly elections and got elected from the Mulund assembly where he won by a margin of 43,527 votes. As a M.L.A., he got 2 major Acts passed in the Maharashtra Assembly - Small Investors’ Protection Act of Maharashtra, Repealing Coroners Court (Post Mortem) Act and introduced the Housing Society Conveyance Bill.
He graduated as Chartered accountant from the Institute of Chartererd Accountants of India (ICAI) in 1979 and also secured a rank in the All India Merit List. He was conferred with a Doctorate from the Mumbai University in 2005 – "Ph.D in Finance – Capital Market – Small Investors Protection." He is credited with submitting one of the longest thesis of 1,202 pages which was submitted in 2 volumes.
As a student activist, Kirit took part in the Jayaprakash Narayan movement in 1975 when a State of National Emergency was declared in country. Later on, he joined the BJP and represented the Mulund Constituency of Maharashtra Assembly and the Mumbai North-East Lok Sabha Constituency.
Kirit Somaiya (born 12 February 1954) is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party who represented Mumbai North-East in the 16th Lok Sabha and the 13th Lok Sabha . He is currently appointed as vice president of BJP's Maharashtra unit.
