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Heena Gavit (born 28 June 1987) is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician from Maharashtra. She was a member of the Lok Sabha from 2014 to 2024, representing the Nandurbar constituency. She is a National Spokesperson of the BJP.

Professional career

Heena Gavit is the daughter of Vijaykumar Gavit, a Bharatiya Janata Party & Ex-Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) MLA from the Nandurbar Assembly constituency. She is a doctor by profession.

Political career

In the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, she defeated Manikrao Hodlya Gavit, a nine-time MP from Nandurbar. Manikrao's Indian National Congress held the seat since 1981. Heena's victory of margin was 106905 votes.

Along with Raksha Khadse, she became the youngest MP in the 16th Lok Sabha.

During 2024 Indian General Elections, She was defeated by Adv. Goval Padvi of Indian National Congress by 1,59,120 votes.

Controversy

On 5 August 2018, the protesters who were observing a dharna outside the Dhule Collector's office for the past 16 days attacked Heena Gavit's car.

References

1. "Political dynasties in Maharashtra". Hindustantimes. 27 May 2024. Archived from the original on 15 December 2024. Retrieved 15 December 2024.
2. "BJP's new team: Mukul Roy, Tejasvi Surya promoted; Ram Madhav gets replaced". Livemint. 26 September 2020. Retrieved 8 July 2021.
3. "BJP fields NCP leader's daughter Heena Gavit in Congress bastion". The Times of India. 21 March 2014.
4. "Constituency-wise results for Lok Sabha Elections 2014". Election Commission of India. Archived from the original on 17 May 2014. Retrieved 16 May 2014.
5. "Youngest winners: Heena Gavit and Raksha Khadse". The Times of India. 16 May 2014.
6. Staff Reporter (6 August 2018). "Maratha protesters attack BJP MP Heena Gavit's car in Dhule". The Indian Express. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
7. Staff Reporter (5 August 2018). "Maratha protesters damage BJP MP's car in Dhule". The Times of India. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
8. Staff Reporter (6 August 2018). "Bandha in Nandurbar to protest attack on local MP's car". The Business Standard. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
9. Staff Reporter (5 August 2018). "Maratha protesters damage BJP MP Heena Gavit's car in Dhule". Pune Mirror. Archived from the original on 12 August 2018. Retrieved 12 August 2018.

v t e Members of the 16th Lok Sabha from Maharashtra
Bharatiya Janata Party (22)	Hansraj Ahir Sharad Bansode Subhash Bhamre Harishchandra Chavan Raosaheb Danve Sanjay Dhotre Nitin Gadkari Sunil Gaikwad Dilipkumar Gandhi Heena Gavit Raksha Khadse Poonam Mahajan Pritam Munde pre-bye poll: Gopinath Munde – deceased Ashok Nete A. T. Patil Kapil Patil Sanjaykaka Patil pre-bye poll: Nanabhau Patole – resigned Gopal Shetty Anil Shirole Kirit Somaiya Ramdas Tadas pre-bye poll: Chitaman Wanga – deceased
Shiv Sena (18)	Shivajirao Adhalrao Anandrao Adsul Shrirang Barne Ravindra Gaikwad Bhavana Gawali Anant Geete Hemant Godse Prataprao Jadhav Sanjay Jadhav Chandrakant Khaire Gajanan Kirtikar Sadashiv Lokhande Vinayak Raut Arvind Sawant Rahul Shewale Shrikant Shinde Krupal Tumane Rajan Vichare
Nationalist Congress Party (5)	Udayanraje Bhosale Dhananjay Mahadik Vijaysinh Mohite-Patil Supriya Sule
Indian National Congress (2)	Ashok Chavan Rajiv Satav
Swabhimani Paksha (1)	Raju Shetti
GE 2014 result summary	BJP-23 SS-18 NCP-4 INC-2 SWP-1
2014 bye-election	Pritam Munde (pre-bye poll: Gopinath Munde – deceased)
2018 bye-election	Madhukar Kukde (pre-bye poll: Nanabhau Patole – resigned) Rajendra Gavit (pre-bye poll: Chitaman Wanga – deceased)
See also Rajya Sabha members from MH for	Term 2010–2016 Term 2012–2018 Term 2014–2020
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v t e Members of the 17th Lok Sabha from Maharashtra
GE 2019	Amol Kolhe Arvind Sawant Ashok Nete Bharati Pawar Bhavana Gawali Dhairyashil Mane Gajanan Kirtikar Girish Bapat Gopal Shetty Heena Gavit Hemant Godse Hemant Sriram Patil Imtiyaz Jaleel Jaisidhesvar Swami Kapil Patil Krupal Tumane Manoj Kotak Navaneet Kaur Nitin Gadkari Omraje Nimbalkar Poonam Mahajan Prataprao Jadhav Prataprao Chikhalikar Pritam Munde Rahul Shewale Rajan Vichare Rajendra Gavit Raksha Khadse Ramdas Tadas Ranjit Naik-Nimbalkar Raosaheb Danve Sadashiv Lokhande Sanjay Jadhav Sanjaykaka Patil Sanjay Mandlik Sanjay Dhotre Shrikant Shinde Shrirang Barne Subhash Bhamre Sudhakar Shrungare Sujay Vikhe Patil Sunil Mendhe Sunil Tatkare Supriya Sule Suresh Dhanorkar Shriniwas Patil Unmesh Patil Vinayak Raut
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• 20th-century Indian medical doctors
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