Meet Bhajan Lal Sharma, Rajasthan's new CM

Bhajan Lal Sharma, a Sanganer MLA, was named chief minister of Rajasthan by the BJP on Tuesday, capping a dramatic contest for the top position that had lasted for days. (Photo/ Agencies)

Vidyadhar Nagar MLA Diya Kumari and Dudu MLA Dr Prem Chand Bairwa will be deputy CMs, while Ajmer North MLA Vasudev Devnani will be the Assembly Speaker. While Kumari had registered the highest margin of 71,368 votes, Bairwa had defeated Babulal Nagar of Congress by 35,743 votes. (Photo/ ANI)

Bhajan Lal Sharma's name as the chief minister of Rajasthan was proposed by BJP's Vasundhara Raje, who was also among the contenders for the top post. His name was announced by defence minister Rajnath Singh. (Photo/ Agencies)

Gajendra Shekhawat, Mahant Balaknath, Diya Kumari, Anita Bhadel, Manju Baghmar, and Arjun Ram Meghwal, were some other names in the list of contenders for the CM post in Rajasthan. (Photo/ Agencies)

Sharma, who is a first-time MLA, has served as the party's state general secretary four times. He won the Sanganer seat in 2023, defeating Congress's Pushpendra Bhardwaj with a margin of 48,081 votes. (Photo/ Agencies)

The BJP, which decisively won Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, and Rajasthan in the November elections, has selected fresh faces to lead all three states. (Photo/ Agencies)

Whereas, in Madhya Pradesh, the BJP surprised everyone by picking three-time Ujjain South MLA Mohan Yadav as the new chief minister over several well-known frontrunners, including chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan. (Photo/ Agencies)

In Chhattisgarh, the Bharatiya Janta Party picked veteran tribal leader Vishnu Deo Sai as the next chief minister. (Photo/ Agencies)

With the end of the chief ministership for Shivraj, Raman Singh, and Vasundhara Raje, there's not single CM left from the Atal-Advani era in BJP. All the CMs in the BJP-ruled states are from the Modi-Shah era. (Photo/ Agencies)