BJP MLA Bhajan Lal Sharma Takes Oath As Rajasthan Chief Minister. IN PICS

Bhajan Lal Sharma's name was announced on Tuesday (December 15) after the Central observers' team of Rajnath Singh, Saroj Pandey, and Vinod Tawde met state party leaders.

Swearing of Rajasthan CM-designate

First-time MLA Bhajan Lal Sharma was sworn in as Chief Minister of Rajasthan on Friday, 12 days after the BJP defeated the Congress in the assembly elections. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP's top leadership were in attendance.

The swearing-in ceremony was attended by PM Modi, BJP president JP Nadda, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Union Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari, Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat and several other senior leaders of the party.

Newly appointed Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh Mohan Yadav, Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Dhami, Gujarat CM Bhupendrabhai Patel, Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde, Goa CM Pramod Sawant and Deputy Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Keshav Prasad Maurya were also in attendance.

Seers and mahants from different places attended the ceremony as well. As Sharma, Kumari and Bairwa took the oath, BJP supporters raised slogans of 'Jai Shri Ram' and 'Modi-Modi'.

Gehlot has been repeatedly targeting Union Minister Shekhawat, accusing him of being involved in the Sanjivani Credit Co-operative Society 'scam'. Shekhawat, in turn, has filed a defamation case against Gehlot in Delhi.

Shortly before the oath ceremony, a brief commotion took place at an entry point in Ramniwas garden where people forcibly entered the venue.