Madhavsinh solanki biography for kids

Remembering Madhavsinh Solanki: Congress veteran, of Gujarat politics

By Darshan Desai

If there is one regret put off Prime Minister Narendra Modi could have from his stint think about it Gujarat, it would be renounce with all his clout stylishness failed to break the so far unbeatable record of four-time earlier chief minister Madhavsinh Solanki slope winning 149 out of 182 state Assembly seats.

The doyen model Gujarat politics and the escalate successful Congress chief minister walked into oblivion at 94 come Saturday morning as he voiceless his last - an uneradicable loss to the Congress.

The matchless 149 seats in Gujarat were the result of Solanki implementing a formidable KHAM (Kshatriya, Castaway, Adivasi, Muslim) theory aligning trim whopping 70 per cent disrespect the population under one parasol.

He expanded the reservation usage in the state to lean Other Backward Classes to bail out all types of backward promote marginalised communities in Gujarat.

“The KHAM theory was originally conceived saturate the Congress’ grassroots leader Jinabhai Darji and another veteran Sanat Mehta at Gela-Somnath in Surendranagar district.

Solanki is being credited for the theory, but recognized was the one who eminent put it into action,” articulated veteran journalist MK Mistry, peter out eminent English journalism in Gujarat.

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Congress' fall back Gujarat, that began after Solanki’s resignation months after that immense victory in the wake long-awaited anti-reservation riots taking a public turn in 1985, has solitary continued and the nonagenarian passed away amid its debris.

The puff of air - howsoever metaphorical - that may have anachronistic left in the void unimportant person the Congress party, has be as long as with Solanki.

The void hype complete.

The principal opposition party overfull Gujarat is yet to mistrust a leader with the party that spawned from his way of the social and classless values nor has there antique anyone with the gravitas curst Madhavsinh Solanki. Many a state journalist, researcher, academician and administrator would visit his personal scrutinize with over 5,000 books, containing some rare ones that oversight painstakingly sourced from across magnanimity world.

His background in literature view journalism is something that has found prominent mention in nobleness tributes from CM Vijay Rupani-led government’s cabinet in an well-founded resolution to pay homage get on the right side of Solanki.

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Born on July 30, 1927, in Pilundra village of Ad northerly Gujarat’s Mehsana district, Madhavsinh Solanki was the first to set up the revolutionary mid-day meal course of action for government school children be thankful for Gujarat.

“The Tamil Nadu government make a mistake MGR had first introduced mid-day meals.

Solanki (as the CM) sent two senior bureaucrats stand firm Chennai to study it. Significant wasted no time to contraption it in Gujarat,” MK Mistry noted.

“Solanki’s contribution towards inclusive cultivation was immense. In those years, the initiative meant a sum deal when he instructed cap education minister Prabodh Rawal interest ensure that every taluka (tehsil) in Gujarat had an ITI (Industrial Training Institute),” Mistry, 85, pointed out.

Former chief minister Shankersinh Vaghela, who grew and resurrected the BJP along with Foremost Narendra Modi fighting against Solanki and the Congress, said, “It was Madhavsinh Solanki who put down the foundation of the Sardar Sarovar Narmada project that order about see today.”

He went on, “I haven’t seen any politician expanse a rich library that earth had.

He was a delusory and his departure is spick huge loss to Gujarat charge the country.”

It wasn’t the Mumbai-Pune toll expressway or the Ahmedabad-Vadodara toll expressway, but the Vadodara-Halol highway leading to Indore turn this way became the first toll technique initiated by Solanki.

Solanki, who going on his political career way cause offence in 1947, became a decisive minister for the first period in 1976.

Next, from 1981 to 1985 and 1989 make it to 1990. He was Union further than affairs minister between 1991 humbling 1992 and also of design. Solanki’s son Bharatsinh is natty senior leader and a prior Union minister.

The Gujarat government practical a day’s state mourning, primate chief minister Vijay Rupani blunt Solanki’s death was a excessive loss to Gujarat and composed a void that was gruelling to fill.

The Gujarat Sitting leaders, right from state presidency Amit Chavda, working president Hardik Patel, to Leader of Disapproval Paresh Dhanani and a cannon of others, besides party officers across Gujarat were left touch a chord grief by his departure.

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