After 25 years of a leadership duopoly between Ashok Gehlot and Vasundhara Raje, Bhajan Lal Sharma has taken the reins as Rajasthan s Chief Minister. The BJP s decisive victory in the assembly polls secured 115 seats, sidelining Raje. Diya Kumari and Prem Chand Bairwa were appointed deputy CMs. Gehlot s efforts for a CM nod if Congress won were overshadowed by the ongoing power struggle with former deputy Sachin Pilot.
History will be written that in the year 2023, Rajasthan witnessed a 'faceless’ assembly poll-contest between the ruling Congress and the Opposition BJP, and it was handed over a big surprise with a first-time MLA taking the helm of the border state.
Markets were shut down as thousands of supporters of Shri Rashtriya Rajput Karni Sena (SRRKS) chief Sukhdev Singh Gogamedi held protests across Rajasthan on Wednesday against his killing the day before, upping the pressure on police to find the two gunmen | Latest News India