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Hirabhai Solanki

Indian politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ5768793 ↗
Source-derived summary

Hira Solanki is a Member of Legislative assembly from Rajula constituency in Gujarat for its 12th legislative assembly. Solanki belongs to Koli community of Gujarat.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Hirabhai Solanki” as indian politician. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Hirabhai, Solanki and Indian.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current 25-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Hirabhai, Solanki and Indian providing the first useful test.
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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5768793. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Hirabhai Solanki” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.