Kuldeep Solanki
Kuldeep Solanki | |
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Kuldeep Solanki (born 1967)[1] is an Indian politician from Delhi. He is a member of the Delhi Legislative Assembly from Palam Assembly constituency in South West Delhi district. He won the 2025 Delhi Legislative Assembly election representing the Bharatiya Janata Party.[2]
Early life and education
[edit]Solanki is from Palam, New Delhi. He was born in 1967 into a Hindu Rajput family to late Ram Roop Solanki[3][4][5][6][7]. He studied till Class 10 Government Boys Senior Secondary School, Delhi Cantonment, New Delhi and passed his matriculation examination in 1983. Later, he discontinued his studies.[1] He declared assets of over Rs. 13 crore (Rs. 130 million) before the 2025 election.[1]
Career
[edit]Solanki won the Palam Assembly constituency representing the Bharatiya Janata Party in the 2025 Delhi Legislative Assembly election. He polled 82,046 votes and defeated his nearest competitor, Jogindar Solanki of the Aam Aadmi Party, by 8,952 votes.[8][9][10]
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 "Kuldeep Solanki(Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP)):Constituency- PALAM(SOUTH-WEST) - Affidavit Information of Candidate". www.myneta.info. Retrieved 8 February 2025.
- ↑ "Palam, Delhi Assembly Election Results 2025 Highlights: BJP's Kuldeep Solanki with 78098 defeats AAP's Joginder Solanki". India Today. 8 February 2025. Retrieved 8 February 2025.
- ↑ https://www.ancestry.com/last-name-meaning/solanki
- ↑ https://www.academia.edu/5611021/A_Show_down_between_Gujarat_s_Solanki_Kings_and_Mohammed_Ghuri_over_1000_years_ago
- ↑ Hermann Kulke (2004). A History of India. Psychology Press. p. 117. ISBN 978-0-415-32919-4.
When Gurjara Pratiharas power declined after the sacking of Kannauj by the Rashtrakutkas in the early tenth century many Rajput princes declared their independence and founded their own kingdoms, some of which grew to importance in the subsequent two centuries. The better known among these dynasties were the Chaulukyas or Solankis of Kathiawar and Gujarat, the Chahamanas (i.e. Chauhan) of eastern Rajasthan (Ajmer and Jodhpur), and the Tomaras who had founded Delhi (Dhillika) in 736 but had then been displaced by the Chauhans in the twelfth century.
- ↑ Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya (2006). Studying Early India: Archaeology, Texts and Historical Issues. Anthem. p. 116. ISBN 978-1-84331-132-4.
The period between the seventh and the twelfth century witnessed gradual rise of a number of new royal-lineages in Rajasthan, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh, which came to constitute a social-political category known as 'Rajput'. Some of the major lineages were the Pratiharas of Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and adjacent areas, the Guhilas and Chahamanas of Rajasthan, the Caulukyas or Solankis of Gujarat and Rajasthan and the Paramaras of Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan.
- ↑ David Ludden (2013). India and South Asia: A Short History. Simon and Schuster. pp. 88–89. ISBN 978-1-78074-108-6.
By contrast in Rajasthan a single warrior group evolved called Rajput (from Rajaputra-sons of kings): they rarely engaged in farming, even to supervise farm labour as farming was literally beneath them, farming was for their peasant subjects. In the ninth century separate clans of Rajputs Cahamanas (Chauhans), Paramaras (Pawars), Guhilas (Sisodias) and Caulukyas were splitting off from sprawling Gurjara Pratihara clans...
- ↑ "Delhi Assembly Elections Results 2025 - Palam". Election Commission of India. 8 February 2025. Archived from the original on 18 March 2025. Retrieved 18 March 2025.
- ↑ "Palam Constituency Election Results 2025". The Times of India. 8 February 2025. Archived from the original on 18 March 2025. Retrieved 18 March 2025.
- ↑ "Palam Election Result 2025: Kuldeep Solanki of BJP Wins, Defeats Joginder Solanki of AAP". News18. Retrieved 8 February 2025.
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