Team News Riveting
Jaipur, December 12
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday picked up a first-time MLA, Bhajanlal Sharma as the next Rajasthan Chief Minister.
The decision was taken during a meeting of the BJP Legislature Party here. Sharma, also the party’s state general secretary, was elected as the Legislature Party leader in the presence of BJP central observer Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and two co-observers — national vice president Saroj Pandey and national general secretary Vinod Tawde.
The move came as a surprise move as Sharma has been elected to the state legislative assembly from Sanganer for the first time. Sharma’s name was proposed by senior party leader and former Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje.
56-year-old Sharma won the Sanganer constituency in the 2023 Rajasthan Assembly Election by defeating Congress candidate Pushpendra Bhardwaj with a margin of 48,081 votes. Sharma also served as the Rajasthan General Secretary for the Bharatiya Janata Party four times.
Hailing from Bharatpur, Sharma has been associated with the organisational works for a long time. He was working as the party’s State General Secretary for a long time. In the recently concluded Assembly election, the BJP fielded him for the first time from a safe seat like Sanganer in Jaipur. He was preferred over the sitting MLA from this constituency.
