Veteran Congress leader and seven-time MLA from Churu district’s Sardarshahar, Bhanwar Lal Sharma, died here on Sunday after a prolonged illness. He was 77. He was being treated for multiple infections at Sawai Man Singh Government Hospital in Jaipur.
Mr. Sharma was among the 18 MLAs who had joined the rebellion led by the then Deputy Chief Minister Sachin Pilot in July 2020. His name emerged during the crisis when some audio tapes containing conversations allegedly about toppling the Congress government in Rajasthan were leaked.
The Congress party had suspended Mr. Sharma when his purported voice was revealed in the audio tapes. The first information report registered by the Rajasthan police had named him as being involved in the plot to destabilise the government after the recordings depicted purported conversations between Union Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, Mr. Sharma and another BJP leader.
