MP Report card: Mohan Kundariya, BJP Constituency – Rajkot

MP profile

Having won Assembly elections from Tankara in Morbi district for five consecutive times and having served as a minister in Narendra Modi’s government in Gujarat, Kundariya won his maiden Lok Sabha election in 2014. Coming from a humble background, he used to ferry passengers and goods on a cart pulled by camel before he set up a diamond polishing unit in Morbi, which is part of Rajkot Lok Sabha seat. His extended family has now interests in the ceramic industry.

Questions asked in Parliament: 381

In his second term as MP from 2019 to 2024, Kundariya asked 381 questions. December 12, 2023: Steps taken by the government to increase the penetration of micro irrigation in the country and details of the area covered under the centrally-sponsored scheme of Per Drop More Crop.

December 5, 2023: Whether the government is contemplating appointment of para athletes as brand ambassadors to offer them wider recognition and serve as inspiration for others.

July 27, 2023: If Gujarat government, in consultation with the Union government, was stimulating an airstrip in Morbi district to encourage the regional air connectivity and if Rs 50 crore have been allocated for the same.

March 17, 2023: Whether the government received any representation from high precision industrial hub of Rajkot to consider for setting up defence aerospace production

February 2, 2023: If the greenfield airport at Hirasar in Rajkot was proposed to be commissioned by 2022 and reasons for the delay.

August 2, 2023: Whether the government has received a representation to establish a full-fledged MSME Bhawan to extend services to more than 85,000 units within Rajkot.

August 1, 2022: Whether it had taken note that the dropout rate for girls was still high after secondary education and the enrolment ratio too dips at the secondary and higher secondary levels, if so, the steps taken/proposed to be taken keeping in view the fact that the onset of menstruation and the lack of availability of hygienic toilets are responsible for girls leaving school without completing education.

February 5, 2021: Whether the government has taken/proposes to take steps to check the increasing population in the country; whether a national oolicy has been prepared to check and control the population explosion

February 4, 2020: Whether the government is aware that mob mobilisation has become a routine feature to stage protests, if so, whether it has taken any step to check such mobilisation

June 25, 2019: Whether the government has received any request to make crop insurance optional rather than mandatory for farmers and whether making crop insurance mandatory for crop loanees has severely affected the farmers economically due to less claim settlements.

Committees served

Member of Lok Sabha joint committee on salaries and allowances of MPs in 2020, 2021 and 2023; Lok Sabha estimates committee between 20190 and 2023; Rajya Sabha committee on industry.

Special mentions in Parliament

The special mentions Kundariya made to raise demands in Lok Sabha include setting up of a visa facilitation centre in Rajkot; catering to the demands of students and businessmen; seeking extension of some long-distance trains to Rajkot; completing doubling of railway tracks between Rajkot and Surendranagar; shifting of the head office of salt commissioner of India to Morbi from Jaipur as Gujarat accounts for 80 per cent of salt production in the country; seeking that Navlakhi port on the sea coast of Morbi be developed further to facilitate industrial growth; building a convention centre in Rajkot, the hub of MSMEs.