Madhavsinh solanki biography of mahatma
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Madhavsinh Solanki’s electoral feat of 149
Madhavsinh Solanki’s remarkable election performance of 1985 has not been surpassed by either the BJP or the Congress since.
Although the KHAM axis alienated the powerful and influential Patidar community from the Congress and pushed it towards the BJP, the KHAM experiment created a vote bank for the Congress that remained intact for much after 1985.
The KHAM alliance worked wonders for the Congress in the 1980s under Madhavsinh’s leadership. He had to step down from the post of CM after he cleared reservations for other backward classes (OBCs) on the recommendations of the Justice Baxi Commission, which triggered widespread anti-quota protests in the state, particularly from the Patidar community.
Sensing an opportunity in the prevailing social scenario at that time, Solanki consolidated the Congress’ hold over Kshatriyas, Harijans (Dalits), Adivasis (Tribals) and Muslims through his hugely successful social engineering experiment, which came to be known as the KHAM theory.
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Trial by Fire
Hamidbhai’s wife, Pratima Kotak ’s family, also belonged to the Gandhi Ashram. Hamidbhai’s family deeply imbibed the ashram’s atmosphere of communal brotherhood. No wonder his closest friends were the political and cultural icons of that period, among them Madhav Singh Solanki, a future Chief Minister; Sneharashmi, Gujarat’s leading poet; the Jamnalal Bajaj family and the noted thinker Yashwant Shukla. Professor Rita Kothari of Ashoka University rightly said of Hamidbhai, “He lived in words and spirit, a life of religious and cultural pluralism. Sadly, such a man became a target of frenzied communal mobs in the serious communal breakdown in Ahmedabad in 1969. His house was charred. Unprepared for the assaults on his life and property, he was shaken by the hatred directed at him. He was a non-practicing Muslim, married to a Hindu. Yet he could not escape his Muslim identity. The attack by Hindu mobs broke his spirit.
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The backdrop of the riots was the split in the Congress between the followers of Indira Gandhi and those of Morarji Desai. In India, political turmoil is always an invitation to unscrupulous elements to seek advantage through polarising and communalising society. All you need is inflammatory rhetoric widely covered