Constituency overview
Kheda includes seven Meeting constituencies of Gujarat, the place the BJP had received within the 2019 Lok Sabha and the 2022 state elections. The constituency had been a Congress bastion since 1952, barring the Swatantra Celebration profitable in 1957 and Janta Dal and BJP profitable in 1989 and 1991, respectively. The Congress held the seat from 1952 to 1957 and thereafter from 1962 to 1989 and once more from 1996 to 2009.
Incumbent MP Devusinh Chauhan is the one BJP chief to have received two consecutive phrases from the seat in 2014 and 2019. The constituency has about 55 per cent voters from the Kshatriya group and had seen a turnout of 60.6 per cent within the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.
MP profile overview
Devusinh Chauhan (59) holds a diploma in electrical engineering and can also be an agriculturist. He had labored as an engineer with All India Radio from 1989 to 2002 earlier than actively becoming a member of politics and contesting the Gujarat polls from Matar in opposition to Congress’s Dhirubhai Chavda on an NCP ticket and securing 9.88 per cent votes. BJP’s Rakesh Rao was elected from the seat in 2002.
Chauhan finally joined the BJP and contested the 2007 polls on a BJP ticket and received from Kheda. He retained the Matar seat for 3 consecutive phrases earlier than turning into MP for the primary time in 2014.
Questions requested in Parliament
Chauhan’s questions vary from communications to mining, social justice and empowerment, data and broadcasting in addition to well being and household welfare. In 2021, he requested whether or not the federal government had taken notice of the truth that “some international corporations engaged within the mining of gold and diamonds aren’t complying with pointers”.
He additionally requested questions on establishing meditech parks within the nation in addition to scarcity of workers in radio stations, acute scarcity of towers for cellphone providers, in addition to the proposal of the Gujarat authorities to use for Captive Cellular Radio Trunking Companies frequency license for the implementation of Digital Trunk Radio System for police communication techniques.
He additional raised points like services for the specially-abled, insufficient Central Authorities Well being Scheme services. In February 2021, he raised the problem of employment exchanges functioning in Kheda and sought particulars of the variety of individuals who had obtained employment within the final three years.
Committees he was a part of
July 2021: Member of Consultative Committee, Ministry of Meals Processing Industries.
September 2019-July 2021: Member of Standing Committee on Defence.
Might 2019: Member of Consultative Committee, Ministry of Communications and Data Expertise