Jaya Jaitly (born 14 June 1942) is an Indian politician and former President of Samata Party (now led by Uday Mandal its current President), an activist, author and Indian handicrafts curator. She stepped down as party president because of the Operation West End controversy in 2002. In 2020 she was sentenced to 4 years in prison for her role in the Operation West End bribery case.