• By Dr Yash Goyal

Jaipur (TIP) – Bhajan Lal Sharma, BJP-Legislative Party Leader, was on Friday, December 15, sworn-in as the new Chief Minister of Rajasthan by the Governor of Rajasthan Kalraj Mishra at a gala event outside Albert Hall Museum in the Ram Niwas Bagh here..
The Governor also administered the oath of office and secrecy to two Deputy Chief Minister Diya Kumari, ex-royal of Jaipur and Vidhyadhar Nagar MLA, and Prem Chandra Bairwa, a Dudu MLA, in presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Defense Minister Rajnath Singh, Nitin Gadkari, BJP President JP Nadda, and Chief Ministers of BJP ruled states including Madhya Pradesh and Chattisgarh, Union Ministers, party MPs, and other top party functionaries.
Former Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot also shared dias and he shook hands with a number of senior BJP leaders and a few union ministers. Vasundhara Raje was sitting on chair close to Gajendra Singh Shekhavat, union minister. Sharma, who is celebrating his 56 birthday coinciding with the swearing in ceremony, is the 15th Chief Minister of Rajasthan and beginning a new era of youngest CMs in the state.
It is worth mentioning that Rajasthan gets Sharma of Brahmin caste after 33 years of Late Hari Deo Joshi (Congress) who ruled the state 1973-77, 1985-1988 and 1989-90. This also ended the 20 years of CM ships in the state ruled by Bhairon Singh Shekhawat (former Vice President), Vasundhara Raje, and Ashok Gehlot till yesterday.
Hailing from Bharatpur district, fifty-six year old Bhajan is post-graduate in Political Science. In his early age of young life he was an active member and functionary of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad in Nadbai and Bharatpur. He took active participation in the Kashmir March in 1990 and he spent some time in Jail during Sriram Janam Bhoomi Andolan in 1992. He who is the BJP and its frontal organisations BJYM and BJP Zila Mantri in Bharatpur was also twice Sarpanch at the age of 27. In 2023 assembly poll he won from Jaipur’s Sanganer constituency.
In view of the upcoming LS elections-2024, with today’s ministry formation coined by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP aims to target Brahmin votes through Bhajan Lal, BJP State President C P Joshi (Brahmin), Rajput votes through Diya Kumari, SC/ST votes via deputy CM Bairwa, and Sindhi mandates from Speaker Vasudev Devnani.