Satyanarayan Jatiya
Dr Satyanarayan Jatiya was a member of the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha of India. He represented the Ujjain constituency of Madhya Pradesh. He is a former federal minister of India and a senior leader of Bharatiya Janata Party. He was cabinet minister from 1999 to 2004 and held portfolios of labour and social justice and empowerment.Born in Jawad of Neemuch district in Madhya Pradesh in 1946 he studied B.Sc., MA., LL.B., Ph.D at Vikram University, Ujjain. He entered politics in 1972 and was detained under MISA during emergency. He was elected to Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly in 1977. He was later elected to 7th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th and 14th Lok Sabha from Ujjain.
He is also a poet and a collection of his poems, Alakh, was published in 1995.
