Bhajan lal takes oath as Raj CM

BJP MLA from Sanganer, Bhajanlal Sharma, took oath as the Chief Minister of Rajasthan on Friday at a swearing-in ceremony in Jaipur.
The oath of office was administered by Rajasthan Governor Kalraj Mishra.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah, along with BJP National President JP Nadda, attended the occasion. Diya Kumari and Prem Chand Bairwa were also sworn in as Deputy Chief Ministers of the state.
Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant, Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha, Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel and Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami also attended the swearing-in ceremony.
Former Rajasthan Chief Minister and BJP leader Vasundhara Raje also attended the swearing-in ceremony, along with Union Ministers Arjun Ram Meghwal and Gajendra Singh Shekhawat.
Bhajanlal Sharma belongs to Rajasthan’s eastern district, Bharatpur and is considered to have strong backing from Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).
He holds a master’s degree in political science. He won the Sanganer assembly seat by an impressive margin, securing 1,45,162 votes against his Indian National Congress (INC) opponent, Pushpendra Bhardwaj, who polled 97,081 votes.
Prem Chand Bairwa is the sitting BJP MLA from the Dudu constituency in Rajasthan. Bairwa won the seat in the 2023 Rajasthan Assembly Election by defeating Congress candidate Babulal Nagar with a margin of 35,743 votes.
Diya Kumari, who is part of the erstwhile Royal Family of Jaipur, won from the Vidyadhar Nagar constituency in Jaipur against Congress’ Sitaram Agarwal with a margin of 71,368 votes.
In Rajasthan, the BJP registered victories on 115 seats, and the Congress came in a distant second with 69 seats.
Rajasthan went to the polls for 199 of the 200 assembly seats on November 25. The majority mark in the state is 100.

New Raj govt will win people’s trust: PM Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said the new chief minister of Rajasthan, Bhajan Lal Sharma, is a dedicated BJP worker who made commendable efforts to strengthen the party, and wished him the very best in fulfilling people’s aspirations. A surprise choice for the top post, Sharma was sworn in earlier in the day at a ceremony in Jaipur, which was attended by Modi and other senior leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). It was also the birthday of the first-time MLA. The BJP government in Rajasthan will work hard to live up to the trust and hope of the people of the state, Modi said.
“Birthday greetings to Rajasthan’s CM Shri Bhajan Lal Sharma Ji. A dedicated party Karyakarta for years, he has made commendable efforts to strengthen BJP across the state. As he embarks on his Chief Ministerial journey, I wish him the very best in fulfilling people’s aspirations, He also conveyed his wishes to Diya Kumari and Prem Chand Bairwa, who were sworn in as deputy chief ministers.