Gajendra Singh Shekhawat

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A brief biography

As in 2019, May

May 31, 2019: The Times of India

Born: Oct 3, 1967

Experience: 1 Lok Sabha Term

In the past year, the tech-savvy and soft spoken Gajendra Singh Shekhawat has come to be considered the party high command’s chosen man in Rajasthan, someone who can be a replacement for former chief minister Vasundhara Raje.

Ironically, it was Raje’s attempts to stymie his nomination as the Rajasthan BJP chief last year that conferred on him instant recognition and popularity across the desert state. In the Lok Sabha elections, he had a difficult fight on hand against Vaibhav Gehlot, son of chief minister Ashok Gehlot, from Jodhpur. But for someone fighting only his second election, Shekhawat recorded a comfortable win, helped in some measure by PM Narendra Modi and party president Amit Shah campaigning for him. Now 51, Shekhawat, a Rajput, began his political career in 1992 as president of the student union at Jodhpur’s Kai Narain Vyas University. He entered electoral politics in 2014, but by then he was closely associated with the Sangh Parivar.