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<div>{{Short description|Indian politician (1927–2021)}}<br />
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{{Infobox officeholder<br />
| name = Madhavsinh Singh Solanki<br />
| image = <br />
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1927|7|30|df=y}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Mahesana district|Piludara]], [[Baroda State]], [[India]]<br />
| residence = <br />
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2021|1|9|1927|7|30|df=y}}<br />
| death_place = [[Gandhinagar]], [[Gujarat]], [[India]]<br />
| office = [[Minister of External Affairs]]<br />
| primeminister = [[P.V. Narasimha Rao]]<br />
| predecessor = [[Chandra Shekhar]]<br />
| successor = [[P.V. Narasimha Rao]]<br />
| term_start = 21 June 1991<br />
| term_end = 31 March 1992<br />
| order1 = 7th<br />
| office1 = Chief Minister of Gujarat<br />
| predecessor1 = [[President's rule]]<br />
| successor1 = [[Babubhai J. Patel]]<br />
| term_start1 = 24 December 1976<br />
| term_end1 = 10 April 1977<br />
| predecessor2 = [[President's rule]]<br />
| successor2 = [[Amarsinh Chaudhary]]<br />
| term_start2 = 7 June 1980<br />
| term_end2 = 6 July 1985<br />
| predecessor3 = [[Amarsinh Chaudhary]]<br />
| successor3 = [[Chimanbhai Patel]]<br />
| term_start3 = 10 December 1989<br />
| term_end3 = 4 March 1990<br />
| party = [[Indian National Congress]]<br />
| spouse = <br />
| children = 3<br />
| footnotes = <br />
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'''Madhav Singh Solanki''' (30 July 1927 – 9 January 2021) was a leader of [[Indian National Congress]] party who served as [[Minister of External Affairs (India)|External Affairs minister]] of [[India]]. He served also as the [[List of Chief Ministers of Gujarat|Chief Minister of Gujarat]] three times. He was known for [[KHAM theory]] by which he came to power in Gujarat in 1980s.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/opinion/d.p-bhattacharya/story/looking-past-2012-120642-2012-11-06|title=Looking past 2012|first1=D. P. |last1=Bhattacharya|date=6 November 2012|website=India Today}}</ref><br />
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== Early life ==<br />
Madhav was born on 30 July 1927 in a [[Koli people|Koli]]<ref>{{Cite book |last=Shah |first=Ghanshyam |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mdzsAAAAMAAJ&q=Madhavsinh+Koli |title=Capitalist Development: Critical Essays |date=1990 |publisher=Popular Prakashan |year=1990 |isbn=9780861322701 |location=[[New Delhi]], [[India]], [[Asia]] |pages=359: Madhavsinh Solanki belonging to the [[Koli people|Koli]] caste was made the [[Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee|GPCC]] President in the place of Darji by the Congress high command. The upsurge in [[Gujarat]] compelled the central government to dissolve the state Assembly prematurely in 1974 (Shah 1977). President's rule came. |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=कुमार |first=रजनीश |date=2017-12-13 |title=गुजरात: बनिये का दिमाग़ और मियांभाई की बहादुरी |language=hi |pages=माधव सिंह सोलंकी '''कोली''' जाति के थे और इन्होंने ही खाम समीकरण को ज़मीन पर उतारा था. गुजरात में कोली ओबीसी में सबसे बड़ा तबका है. |work=BBC News हिंदी |url=https://www.bbc.com/hindi/india-42334430 |access-date=2020-09-08}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Lobo |first=Lancy |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1DBuAAAAMAAJ |title=The Thakors of North Gujarat: A Caste in the Village and the Region |date=1995 |publisher=Hindustan Publishing Corporation |isbn=978-81-7075-035-2 |pages=173 - 174 |language=en}}</ref> family of [[Gujarat]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Madhav Singh Solanki, Seventh Chief Minister of Gujarat {{!}} Mukhyamantri {{!}} VTV Gujarati - YouTube|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02uxgeauNfI|access-date=2020-07-22|website=www.youtube.com}}</ref> His eldest son, [[Bharatsinh Madhavsinh Solanki]], is also a politician.<br />
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==Career==<br />
In 1981, the [[Government of Gujarat]] headed by the chief minister Solanki, introduced the reservation for socially and economically backward classes based on recommendations of Bakshi Commission. It resulted in anti-reservation agitation across the state which spilled over in riots resulting in more than hundred deaths. Solanki resigned in 1985 but later returned to power winning 149 out of 182 [[Gujarat Legislative Assembly|assembly]] seats [a record till BJP's victory in 2022 Assembly Elections]. He was supported by [[Kshatriya]], [[Harijan]], [[Adivasi]] and [[Muslim]]s; called collectively as KHAM formula. It resulted in other communities losing the political influence.<ref name="Langa 2015">{{cite web | last=Langa | first=Mahesh | title=Quota agitation in Gujarat heading for caste conflicts? | website=The Hindu | date=23 August 2015 | url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/quota-agitation-in-gujarat-heading-for-caste-conflicts/article7570338.ece | access-date=23 August 2022}}</ref><br />
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==Bofors==<br />
According to the CBI, Solanki visited [[Davos]] in [[Switzerland]] in 1992 to attend the [[World Economic Forum]] where he allegedly met the Swiss foreign minister [[Rene Felber]] and told him that "inquiries conducted into the scam in India had failed to produce any result and that the request for mutual assistance was based on political considerations".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/solanki-tried-to-scuttle-bofors-probe-cbi/articleshow/43787624.cms|title=Solanki tried to scuttle Bofors probe: CBI &#124; India News - Times of India|website=The Times of India}}</ref><br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [[List of Koli people]]<br />
* [[List of Koli states and clans]]<br />
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{{s-ttl|title=[[Minister of External Affairs (India)|Minister of External Affairs]]|years=21 June 1991 - 31 March 1992}}<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070311021042/http://www.dailyexcelsior.com/99may03/national.htm Govt to press for early Presidential sanction]<br />
* [http://www.lalkar.org/issues/contents/jul2002/gujerat.html Communalist outrages in Gujarat ]<br />
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