Kirit Somaiya
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Dr. Kirit Somaiya |
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| डॉ. किरीट सोमय्या | |
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| Member of the Indian Parliament for Mumbai North East |
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Assumed office May 2014 to till date |
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| Born |
12 February 1954 Mumbai, Maharashtra) |
| Nationality |
 Indian
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| Political party | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| Spouse(s) | Dr. Medha Somaiya |
| Children | 1 |
| Residence | Neelam Nagar, Mulund East, Mumbai, Maharashtra Pin-425111 |
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| Religion | Hinduism |
| Website | kiritsomaiya |
| As of 31 March, 2015 | |
Kirit Somaiya (born 12 February 1954) is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) who currently represents Mumbai North-East in the 16th Lok Sabha. He also represented the same seat in the 13th Lok Sabha.
Kirit Somaiya was born and brought up in Mumbai in a middle – class family. He married Medha Somaiya and they have one son.
Kirit Somaiya's son Neil has also joined BJP and he is Municipal Councillor from Ward 108 Mulund. It is also to be believed that Neil's brother Harsh Somaiya is also into the Youth wing of BJP along with persuading Chartered Accountancy. The two brothers are definitely following the footsteps of Kirit Somaiya.
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.
Kirit Somaiya was motivated by his mother in during his childhood to serve the country and he decided to enter into politics and concentrate on finance and economic issues at a young age.
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.
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.
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.
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