[9][10][11] Paras Jain was born in Ujjain to Late Shri Samrathmal Tallera and Shrimati Kailash Bai, his father was a grain merchant.

He completed his B.Com from Vikram University and joined his father in the food grains’ trade after finishing education.

[12] He contested and won his first legislative assembly election in the year 1990 from Ujjain Constituency, when BJP came to power in the state, under the leadership of Sunder Lal Patwa, riding on the Ayodhya movement, with 54.21% polling.

In the elections that followed in 1993, BJP faced huge setback and Congress came back to power in Madhya Pradesh, but Paras Jain successfully retained his seat from Ujjain.

Later he was promoted to State Minister with Independent Charge for Food, Civil Supplies & Consumer Protection Department.

[16] Since 2015, when Kailash Vijayvargiya was made National General Secretary of BJP, Paras Jain is the only Cabinet Minister from Malwa region in the Government of Madhya Pradesh.