New Delhi: The suspense over the chief ministerial face lastly ended because the BJP introduced Bhajanlal Sharma will maintain the coveted publish in Rajasthan. The announcement comes after a vital legislature occasion assembly on Tuesday. 56-year-old Bhajanlal Sharma is a first-time MLA and received the Sanganer seat within the just lately held Rajasthan polls. He’s additionally the state common secretary of BJP.
Sharma, who hails from Bharatpur, received the Sanganer seat by 48,081 votes regardless of being labelled as an outsider. He defeated Congress’s Pushpendra Bhardwaj. Sharma is understood to be near the RSS in addition to the BJP management.
Diya Kumari and Prem Chand Bairwa would be the deputy chief ministers of Rajasthan, and Vasudev Devnani would be the Speaker.
Addressing a press convention, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh mentioned that former CM Vasundhara Raje proposed Bhajanlal Sharma’s title throughout a gathering of the newly-elected legislators and his title was agreed to unanimously. This follows the trail adopted in MP the place Shivraj Chouhan proposed Mohan Yadav’s title throughout the BJP legislative occasion assembly in Bhopal.
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Among the many frontrunners for the highest publish have been former chief minister Vasundhara Raje and Union ministers Arjun Ram Meghwal, Gajendra Singh Shekhawat and Ashwini Vaishnaw.
Earlier within the day, BJP state common secretary and MLA Bhajanlal Sharma mentioned the important thing huddle would happen on the BJP headquarters.
BJP central observer Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and two co-observers — nationwide vp Saroj Pandey and nationwide common secretary Vinod Tawde have been current within the assembly.
Notably, a number of BJP MLAs had referred to as on former chief minister Raje in latest days amid speculations that the occasion could select a non-popular face for the publish. Nevertheless, as per information company PTI, the occasion leaders, together with Rajendra Rathore, who misplaced the elections, mentioned there isn’t any custom of ‘present of power’ within the saffron occasion.
Earlier, sources within the BJP informed ABP Information that the occasion president JP Nadda referred to as Vasundhara Raje and suggested her to not meet BJP MLAs and to let the highest brass determine on the chief ministerial face. Raje urged Nadda to make her the chief minister for a 12 months. Nevertheless, she refused Nadda’s proposal to develop into Lok Sabha speaker, as per the sources.
On Sunday, the BJP introduced Vishnu Deo Sai because the chief minister of Chhattisgarh, and on Monday, the occasion named Mohan Yadav as his Madhya Pradesh counterpart.