Bhajan Lal Sharma’s elevation from the Bharatiya Janata Party’s lowest ranks to the Chief Minister’s post is seen as a morale booster for the low-key and faceless workers of the organisation who silently toil on the sidelines for the party.
Party workers point to an incident when they talk about Mr. Sharma’s low-key activism. There was a transformer next to his house in Bharatpur. He made several rounds to the electricity department requesting it to be moved, but nothing happened for years. But within hours of the announcement that he would be the new Chief Minister of Rajasthan, the transformer was removed.
A first-time MLA from Sanganer constituency in Jaipur, Mr. Sharma, 56, is the second Brahmin Chief Minister of the State in the past three decades. He will have two deputies, Diya Kumari, a Rajput, and Prem Chand Bairwa, who hails from a Dalit community.
