Party Name : Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP)
Constituency : Ahmedabad West
State : Gujarat
Member Experience : Elected to Loksabha 1 time
Last Loksabha Attended : 17
Father's Name : Shri Premjibhai Solanki
Mother's Name : Smt. Shantaben Solanki
Date of birth : 17 Jun 1950
Profession : Medical Practitioner Social Worker, Professor, Consultant Surgeon, Advanced Laparoscopic Surgeon,Agriculturist,Writer
Positions held :
2009 Elected to 15th Lok Sabha31 Aug. 2009 Member, Standing Committee on Urban DevelopmentMember, Indian Nursing CouncilMember, Rajaghat Samadhi Committee2009 - 2014 Member, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)2010 - 2014 Member, Committee on the Welfare of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled TribesMember, Consultative Committee, Ministry of FoodMay, 2014 Re-elected to 16th Lok Sabha (2nd term)14 Aug. 2014 - 19 July 2016 Member, Committee on Welfare of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes1 Sep. 2014 - 25 May 2019 Member, Standing Committee on FinanceMember, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas19 July 2016 - 25 May 2019 Chairperson, Committee on Welfare of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled TribesMay, 2019 Re-elected to 17th Lok Sabha (3rd term)21 June 2019 onwards Member, Panel of Chairpersons, Lok Sabha24 July 2019 onwards Chairperson, Committee on Welfare of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes13 Sept. 2019 onwards Member, Standing Committee on FinanceMember, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change21 Nov. 2019 onwards Member, General Purposes Committee, Lok Sabha
More Information :
Literary, Artistic & Scientific Accomplishments
Writing articles in Gujarat &National News Papers mainly on social justice, BR Ambedkar, Governments schemes, social awareness etc.; Spreading scientific approach and awareness
Social And Cultural Activities
Social and Cultural activities specially for social justice, educational, Diagnostic camps, Blood Donation Camp. Special teaching in Medical education, particularly underprivileged; Working for Baba Sahib Ambedkar ideology
Special Interests
Medical service and Medical Education. Educational and social service for poors; Now working for Vir Megh Maya Vishva Memorial Foundation of Research Centre, Spreading awareness of Ambedkar ideology & removal of ignorance of poverty
Favourite Pastime and Recreation
Tourism in India & Abroad, particularly to visit Heritage Mountains, Desserts & Sea; To listen Hindi Songs, old bollywood songs Gazals, to see old movie and classical music and English move; Lok Sangit
Sports and Clubs
Active Member of Sport Association; Interested to see cricket, Hockey, Kusti, Kabaddi and other Indian games
Countries Visited
2014 participated in Hon. Presidents official visit to Norway & Finland (Shri Pranav Mukherjee) Parliamentary Delegation in IPU visit to Uganda Vietnam, Zambia, Bangladesh, Geneva Attended International TB Conference in France, Canada
Other Information
Feels proud to share that worked as Teacher (Professor of Surgery) for more than 38 year. Probably first to start consulting surgical practice with Nursing home in state of Gujarat and trend setter in practice hence now many SC/ST consultants are establishing their own Hospital. Served mainly for poor patients As a Teacher in surgery trained more than 100 M.S. surgeons, now successfully in India & abroad Founder surgeon as Laparoscopic surgery in Gujarat was doing Advanced Laparoscopic surgery
