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Former foreign minister and
Congress veteran Madhavsinh Solanki, who had also served as chief minister of Gujarat, died in Gandhinagar on early Saturday morning, Congress leaders said. He was 93. The death of Madhavsinh Solanki has brought extreme grief. May God give peace to his soul. He had made place in the hearts of people by his actions and deeds, Gujarat Congress president Amit Chavda, who is also a relative of Solanki, tweeted. He had served as External Affairs Minister from June 1991 to March 1992. Solanki was a two term MP of Rajya Sabha from Gujarat. He had floated an idea of an alliance of Kshitriya, Harijan, Adivasi (tribal) and Muslim (KHAM) casts and communities in Gujarat for Congress to win elections.
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A scribe-turned-politician who went on to become chief minister of Gujarat four times, a master strategist whose famous KHAM formula ensured a landslide victory for the Congress in 1985 and an avid reader Madhavsinh Solanki was a formidable politician. He stepped on the national stage when he became external affairs minister, but had to resign following a controversy over his meeting with the Swiss counterpart and remarks regarding the Bofors case probe. Solanki dominated politics in Gujarat before the rise of the BJP in the 1990s. Under his leadership the Congress had won 149 out of 182 seats in the state elections held in 1985, a record which still remains unbroken.
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