Mohan Yadav congratulates Rajasthan CM-designate Bhajanlal Sharma
Dec 12, 2023
Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh) [India], December 12 : Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister-designate Mohan Yadav on Tuesday congratulated Bhajanlal Sharma on being elected as the leader of the Rajasthan BJP legislature party and said that under Prime Minister Narendra Modi's leadership, double-engine governments will take their states ahead.
"I congratulate my friend Bhajanlal, who has been elected as the CM there. I wish for him to be the most successful CM of Rajasthan. I pray to Baba Mahakal to set new records of development in Rajasthan. Together, under the leadership of PM Modi, double-engine governments in Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan will take the state ahead," said Mohan Yadav, who was also the party's surprise pick for Chief Minister in Madhya Pradesh just like Bhajanlal in Rajasthan.
Earlier in the day, after days of suspense, the Bharatiya Janata Party picked Bhajanlal Sharma, a first-time MLA from the Sanganer assembly constituency, as the chief minister of Rajasthan.
Later, Sharma, accompanied by two deputy chief ministers, namely Prem Chand Bairwa and Diya Kumari, met Rajasthan Governor Kalraj Mishra in Jaipur and staked a claim to form the government.
Bhajanlal 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 by 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.
