There has been significant confusion around Rajasthan’s next Chief Minister nomination after the BJP won the most recent State Assembly election. On the other hand, Sanganer MLA Bhajan Lal Sharma has been chosen to be the next Chief Minister of Rajasthan.
At the Jaipur conference of the BJP Legislature Party, Mr. Sharma’s name was declared. During the Legislature Party meeting, Sharma was suggested by former chief minister Vasundhara Raje. Kirodi Lal Meena and other high-ranking officials seconded it.
Defence Minister and central observer Rajnath Singh said that Prem Chand Bairwa and Diya Kumari will be the two Deputy Chief Ministers. Ms. Kumari is a member of Jaipur’s former royal dynasty. Ms. Kumari, a former princess, is the Rajsamand BJP MP. Ms. Kumari was elected to the Lok Sabha from Sawai Madhopor as an MLA for the first time in 2013 and again in 2019. In her speeches for elections, she emphasized Rajasthan’s need for parivartan, or reform.
The 51-year-old head of the Bharatiya Janata Party was reportedly one of the favourites to become Chief Minister. Sharma beats rival Congress candidate Pushpendra Bhardwaj in the Rajasthan elections of 2023 to win the Sanganer seat and become the assembly’s first elected member by a wide margin of more than 48,000 votes. He comes from the Bharatpur district and has held the position of general secretary of the state BJP unit four times. Sharma is a political science master’s degree holder.
Sharma is shown in the last row of a group shot taken before to the parliamentary party gathering. Premchand Bairwa and Diya Kumari will be the two deputy chief ministers in the next Rajasthani cabinet. Rajnath Singh, an observer for the BJP and union minister, also declared that the party has suggested Vasudev Devnani to be the speaker of the recently elected legislature.
Diya Kumari, a former member of the Jaipur royal family, has served as an MLA twice and an MP once. The 51-year-old BJP lawmaker was reportedly one of the front-runners for the position of chief minister. He was initially elected as an MLA from the Sawai Madhopur assembly constituency in 2013. She won a seat in Rajsamand as an MP in 2019.
She is the daughter of Sawai Bhawani Singh, a former Jaipur royal who distinguished himself as a Lieutenant Colonel and Commanding Officer during the 1971 Indo-Pakistan war.
She is the daughter of Sawai Bhawani Singh, a former royal of Jaipur who established himself as a Lieutenant Colonel and Commanding Officer of the Para Commandos of the 10th Parachute Regiment during the 1971 Indo-Pakistan conflict.
In the BJP, Bairwa is a Dalit face; she and Kumari were named deputy chief ministers. In the assembly elections held on November 25 in Rajasthan, the 54-year-old won the Dudu seat. With a margin of 35,743 votes, Bairwa defeated Babu Lal Nagar of the Congress. Bairwa is a PhD holder from the University of Rajasthan in Jaipur.Sharma was chosen by the BJP’s recently elected MLAs during a meeting at the state headquarters with two co-observers—national general secretary Vinod Khan and national vice president Saroj Pandey—and BJP central observer Defence Minister Rajnath Singh.
Vasundhara Raje, a prominent BJP leader and former chief minister of Rajasthan who was considered a potential candidate for the top position, revealed Sharma’s name.
Out of the 199 seats that were up for election, the BJP secured 115 seats. The Congress candidate’s death prevented the Sriganganagar seat from being held for Karanpur.
