Bhajan Lal Sharma | Dedicated ‘Sangh’ volunteer
The HinduBhajan Lal Sharma’s elevation from the Bharatiya Janata Party’s lowest ranks to the Chief Minister’s post is seen as a morale booster for the low-key and faceless workers of the organisation who silently toil on the sidelines for the party. Mr. Sharma, who was associated with the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, the students’ wing of the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh, is known to be a dedicated volunteer of the ‘Sangh’. In his ‘Jeevan Parichay’, Mr. Sharma writes how in 1990, when the ABVP organised ‘Kashmir Bachao Andolan’, he as a student leader participated in the same and courted arrest in Udhampur. In his 35-year-long political career, Mr. Sharma served over half-a-dozen organisational posts in the BJP, including as the BJP Yuva Morcha leader, BJP district president of Bharatpur, and BJP State vice-president and State general secretary. Another apocryphal story making rounds about Mr. Sharma and his friend’s group is that they had organised a ‘rakshabandhan samaroh’ and made the students tie Rakhi to ABVP workers to promote “Indian traditions”.
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