BJP appoints first-time MLA Bhajan Lal Sharma as next Rajasthan CM; picks Prem Chand Bairwa and Diya Kumari as deputy CMs
The wait for the selection of the Rajasthan chief minister came to an end on Tuesday evening as the Bharatiya Janata Party chose first-time MLA from Sanganer, Bhajan Lal Sharma, as the next CM from the state. MLA from the Dudu seat, Dr. Prem Chand Bairwa, and the MLA from Vidhyadhar Nagar, Diya Kumari, have been appointed as Deputy Chief Ministers of Rajasthan.
In a surprise decision that would have surprised many of its party officials too, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday (December 12, 2023) picked Bhajan Lal Sharma, the first-time MLA from the Sanganer assembly constituency, as the 13th Chief Minister of Rajasthan.
The decision to pick Sharma as the next chief minister of the state was taken in a prty meeting in Jaipur on Tuesday amid the presence of BJP observers Rajnath Singh, Vinod Tawde and Saroj Pandey.
MLA from the Dudu seat, Dr. Prem Chand Bairwa, and the MLA from Vidhyadhar Nagar, Diya Kumari, have been appointed the Deputy Chief Ministers of Rajasthan.
Vasudev Devnani has been elected as the speaker of the assembly.
Sharma was holding the post of a mahamantri in the state before the BJP picked him for the post of CM.
Sharma won the Sanganer assembly seat by a massive margin. He secured 145162 votes to beat the Congress' Pushpendra Bhardwaj, who got 97081 votes.
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