Constituency overview
Former prime minister Morarji Desai was elected from Surat. The port metropolis despatched him to Lok Sabha for 4 straight phrases from 1951 to 1971 when he was in Congress. In 1977, within the post-emergency period, he was elected as a Janata Occasion chief. He was sworn in because the prime minister on March 24, 1977. Between 1980 and 1984, Congress chief C D Patel represented Surat in parliament.
Other than Jardosh, BJP chief Kashiram Rana was one other Union Minister who was elected from the constituency. He was elected for six consecutive phrases from 1989 to 2004. Kashiram Rana served because the Union minister of textiles (between 1998 and 2003), and the Union minister for rural growth (between 2003 and 2004) within the Atal Bihari Vajpayee authorities.
Profile overview
Since 2009, Jardosh, a commerce graduate, has been successful the constituency. She began her political profession in school as a pupil chief. After her marriage, she turned the president of Surat BJP Mahila Morcha (ladies’s wing) in 1999 and received the Surat Municipal Company election in 2000. After successful the Lok Sabha election in 2009, she was made the final secretary of the BJP Nationwide Mahila Morcha. She additionally represented India in BRICS Ladies Parliamentarians’ Discussion board in Jaipur in 2016.
Committees she has been a part of — She has been a member of the Public Accounts Committee (2019-2021). She was additionally a member of the Consultative Committee for the Ministry of Exterior Affairs. She was a member of the Parliamentary Committee on Empowerment of Ladies (2014-2019). She was additionally a part of the Standing Committee on Finance (2019-2021), and Enterprise Advisory Committee (2019-2021). She was additionally a member of the Board of Governors in Nationwide Institute of Trend Expertise (NIFT) (2013-14).
MPLAD Fund Lowdown
Darshana Jardosh shared that she used her MPLAD (Members of Parliament Native Space Growth Division) funds for buying ambulances and donated it to completely different hospitals, and blood banks within the metropolis. Together with this, tricycles and wheelchairs price Rs. 2.50 lakh have been donated to differently-abled individuals. Jardosh stated she donated Rs 64 lakh for an oxygen plant on the New Civil Hospital. Jardosh spent Rs 71 lakh for a smog tower to fight air air pollution and Rs 1.20 crore for the development of a analysis centre at Veer Narmad South Gujarat College for innovation and extension actions associated to textiles.
Questions requested in Parliament
Darshana Jardosh raised inquiries to a number of ministers together with Finance, House Affairs, Training, Well being and Household welfare, Chemical compounds and Fertilizers, Textiles, Protection, Port Delivery and Waterways.
September 19, 2020: If the federal government proposes to present sovereign assure on life insurance coverage insurance policies given by the Life Insurance coverage Company of India (LIC).
September 20, 2020: The small print of steps taken to this point/more likely to be taken by Centre in coordination with states to extend the participation of girls in police, to make a provision of separate restrooms for feminine personnel at police stations and to exempt them from discipline obligation for one yr in case of supply.
September 21, 2020: The small print of the steps taken by Centre, the federal government of Gujarat and different central safety companies to make sure the security and safety of Hazira and Dahej Industrial Mathak.
September 23, 2020: The steps taken by the Centre in coordination with states and union territories to extend social consciousness for donation of human organs.
Participation in Debates
The Union minister on December 20, 2023, gave statements relating to the implementation of the advice contained within the forty second Report of the Standing Committee on Labour, Textiles and Ability Growth on Calls for for Grants (2023-24) pertaining to the Ministry of Textiles. She additionally participated within the mixed dialogue on the Interim Budget 2019-20. — Kamaal Saiyed