India: Bhajan Lal Sharma takes over as Rajasthan CM, BJP prime brass again oath ceremony

First-time MLA Bhajan Lal Sharma used to be sworn in because the manager minister of Rajasthan at a ceremony attended by Top Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP’s prime leadership on Friday (December 15), 12 days after the celebration ousted the Congress in the assembly polls.

Sharma, a BJP dispute frequent secretary, took payment of the dispute on the day he grew to change into 57.

In conjunction with him, Diya Kumari and Prem Chand Bairwa had been sworn in because the deputy chief ministers by Governor Kalraj Mishra. All three took the oath in Hindi.

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The outgoing chief minister Ashok Gehlot attended the ceremony held in entrance of the ancient Albert Hall right here. A immense gathering of BJP MLAs and employees from across the dispute witnessed it.

A Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh-backed leader, Sharma used to be appointed the leader of the BJP legislature celebration on December 12.

The swearing-in ceremony used to be attended by PM Modi, BJP president J P Nadda, Union House Minister Amit Shah, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Union Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari, Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat and several other other senior leaders of the celebration.

Newly appointed chief minister of Madhya Pradesh Mohan Yadav, Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Dhami, Gujarat CM Bhupendrabhai Patel, Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde, Goa CM Pramod Sawant and Deputy Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Keshav Prasad Maurya had been additionally in attendance.

Seers and mahants from varied areas attended the ceremony as effectively.

As Sharma, Diya Kumari and Bairwa took the oath, BJP supporters raised slogans of ‘Jai Shri Ram’ and ‘Modi-Modi’.

Birthday greetings to Rajasthan’s CM Shri Bhajan Lal Sharma Ji. A accurate Occasion Karyakarta for years, he has made commendable efforts to reinforce BJP across the dispute. As he embarks on his Chief Ministerial traipse, I wish him the very handiest in fulfilling of us’s aspirations.… pic.twitter.com/gtyxOchzNy

— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) December 15, 2023

Ashok Gehlot, who used to be amongst the leaders who reached the programme early, sat subsequent to “rival” Gajendra Singh Shekhwat and used to be considered talking to him.

Gehlot has been many times focusing on Union minister Shekhawat, accusing him of being all for the Sanjivani Credit ranking Co-operative Society ‘scam’. Shekhawat, in turn, has filed a defamation case against Gehlot in Delhi.

Shortly earlier than the oath ceremony, a transient commotion took location at an entry point in Ramniwas garden the achieve of us forcibly entered the venue.

Numerous of us jumped over the barricades earlier than police managed to quit them.

The BJP on December 12 picked first-time MLA Bhajan Lal Sharma as Rajasthan’s unique chief minister, ending days of speculation that followed its victory in the assembly polls.

The surprise selection used to be introduced after BJP MLAs met right here and elected the 56-yr-used legislator from Sanganer because the leader of its legislature celebration.

Gajendra Singh Shekhawat and Vasundhara Raje had been additionally amongst the frontrunners for the CM post earlier than the legislature celebration assembly.

Sharma, a Brahmin face of the celebration, is from Bharatpur district and obtained the Sanganer constituency of Jaipur with a margin of forty eight,081 votes. He holds a grasp’s level in Political Science.

He is the third in a sequence of lesser-identified MLAs who had been elevated by the BJP to the manager minister’s post after the now not too lengthy ago held assembly elections.

The others are Vishnu Deo Sai and Mohan Yadav who now not too lengthy ago took oath because the manager ministers of Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh respectively.

The BJP in Rajasthan obtained 115 seats in the November 25 assembly elections, whereas the Congress got 69 seats. Polling used to be held on 199 of the 200 seats in the dispute.