"God's grace," says father of Rajasthan CM-designate Bhajanlal Sharma
Dec 12, 2023
Bharatpur (Rajasthan) [India], December 12 : Krishnalal Sharma, father of Bhajanlal Sharma, on Tuesday said that it is a great thing that his son has been named as the chief minister of Rajasthan.
This came after the Bharatiya Janata Party picked Bhajanlal Sharma, a first-time MLA from the Sanganer assembly constituency, as the chief minister of Rajasthan.
"It is a great thing...It has been done by God's grace," the father of Bhajanlal Sharma said while speaking to reporters here.
Moreover, Bhajanlal's mother, Gomti Sharma, with tears of sheer delight said that she never imagined that this would happen one day.
Bhajanlal Sharma, accompanied by two deputy Chief Minister-designates namely Prem Chand Bairwa and Diya Kumari, met Governor Kalraj Mishra in Jaipur and staked a claim to form the government.
Sharma belongs to Rajasthan's eastern district, Bharatpur and is considered to have strong backing from Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.
He is at present the BJP's state general secretary and holds a master's degree in political science.
He won the Sanganer assembly seat with an impressive margin, securing 145,162 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 won from the Vidyadhar Nagar constituency against Congress' Sitaram Agarwal with a margin of 71368 votes.
In Rajasthan, the vote count painted a starkly different picture from what some of the pollsters had predicted, with the BJP poised to form the government, winning 115 seats, and the Congress trailing at 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.
