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Jayashree Banerjee
Indian politician
Jayashree Banerjee (born 2 July 1938[1]) is a leader of Bharatiya Janata Party from Madhya Pradesh, and a former member of parliament.
She contested Madhya Pradesh Vidhan Sabha election in 1972 as a member of Jana Sangh from Jabalpur Cantonment seat but lost.[2] She was elected to Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly in 1977 (Jabalpur Central, Janata Party member, pre-BJP days), 1990 and 1993 from Pashchim Jabalpur. She served as cabinet minister in Madhya Pradesh government from 1977 to 1980. She was a member of 13th Lok Sabha (1999-2004), elected from Jabalpur.
She is the mother-in-law of the current BJP President J. P. Nadda.[3]