Darshana Jardosh (born 21 January 1961) is an Indian politician and currently serving as Union State Minister of Railways and Union State Minister of Textiles. She is member of the

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representing the Surat constituency in

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. She is a member of the

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and was elected to

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in 2009, following by to

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in 2014 and

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in 2019.

Career

She was elected to

in 2009. In 2009, she demanded that the government set up an international airport in Surat to boost diamond trade. In 2012, she criticised Congress MP Tushar Chaudhary for trying to take credit for flight connectivity to Surat, which she and Navasari MP CR Patil campaigned for. She was re-elected as the Member of Parliament in the 2014 elections to the Lok Sabha from Surat. She won with a historic margin of 5,33,190 votes which is the highest lead by any woman MP in Indian Electoral History after Smt. Indira Gandhi and the 4th highest lead in the 2014 elections. She won with a 76.6% vote share which is a record for the 2014 elections. She was re-elected as the Member of Parliament in the

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to the Lok Sabha from surat with 7,95,651 votes. She took oath as a Minister of State for Railways on 7th July 2021 during Narendra Modi's ministry expansion at

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References

External links

Detailed Profile
in the Government of India portal
Darshana Jardosh on Twitter

Darshana Jardosh on Facebook
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