Jaipur, Dec 13 (IANS) Vasundhara Raje Friday took oath as the chief minister of Rajasthan, five days after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) swept to power crushing the Congress. Governor Margaret Alva administered the oath of office to Vasundhara Raje at the Rajasthan assembly complex in the presence of thousands of supporters and senior party leaders. Source: Article , Vasundhara Raje takes oath as Rajasthan Chief Minister: Jaipur, Dec 13 (ANI): Vasundhara Raje, who spearhead BJP's spectacular comeback to power in Rajasthan, took oath as state Chief Minister today. Governor Margaret Alva administered the oath of office and secrecy to Vasundhara Raje. Top leaders of the BJP including party patriarch LK Advani, party prime ministerial candidate and Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi, party president Rajnath Singh, Venkaiah Naidu, Nitin Gadkari, Ananth Kumar, among others attended theceremony. Chhattisgarh chief minister Raman Singh, Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Gopinath Munde, also graced the occasion. The BJP returned to power in Rajasthan after five years, winning a record 162 seats and leaving the Congress bruised with just 21 members in the 200-seat legislature. (ANI). Source: Article, Image1- 2, Don’t make MLAs with doubtful integrity ministers: Civil society to Raje | The Asian Age: Stressing on clean governance, civil society groups of Rajasthan on Saturday requested newly elected Chief minister Vasundhara Raje to desist from giving ministry portfolios to MLAs with questionable integrity. National Election Watch and Association for Democratic Reform, organisations working for electoral and political reforms, have written to the Chief minister in this regard. “This is our appeal to the Chief minister to provide clean politics and for that it is needed that MLAs, which have criminal antecedents should not be given place in committees of the House and ministries,” Kamal Tak, representative of Rajasthan Election Watch, said. On the basis of the affidavits submitted by the MLAs with nomination papers filed at the time of elections, Tak claimed that 36 out of total 199 newly elected MLAs had criminal cases against them, in addition to other 19 MLAs with serious criminal cases. The groups have also requested the CM to institutionalise annual asset declaration of all MLAs as a rule in the Assembly to ensure transparency in the governance. Source: The Asian Age, Image: https://upload.wikimedia.org/
