Who is this Diya Kumari another deputy CM designate of the desert state?
Reportedly the bharatiya janata party has for the third consecutive time this week sprung a surprise by picking Bhajan Lal Sharma an mla sitting in the fourth row in a group photo as rajasthan chief minister, and prem Chand Bairwa as a deputy cm designate. However, one name that has been consistently in the news and also made it to the top three is Princess diya Kumari now another deputy cm designate of the desert state.Meanwhile she has been seen as the “next Vasundhara Raje” in rajasthan from the beginning of the electoral campaign season. The similarities are uncanny both women leaders, both hail from royal families of rajasthan, and both have connections to Rajputs who influenced results in 85 assembly constituencies in the desert state this time. But if politics is about perception, there have been enough indications that made many question whether the bjp was pushing the 55 year old princess to occupy the ‘royal’ seat in Rajasthan’s power circles, replacing vasundhara raje Scindia, now 70 years old. With Tuesday’s announcement, it has become clear at least this one was not just mere speculation.Diya Kumari is the granddaughter of Man Singh II, the last ruling maharaja of jaipur during the british Raj in India. She is a princess of jaipur and the mother of the current maharaja, Padmanabh Singh. Going against tradition, she married a commoner, narendra Singh, in 1997. However, they got divorced in 2019. The bjp chose to field her from Vidyadhar Nagar, a seat from jaipur city itself, which she won with more than 71,000 votes a massive mandate in terms of the assembly election.A london graduate who completed her PhD in Philosophy and graduated in Decorative Arts, the indian billionaire manages the Jaigarh fort in Amber, two trusts Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II Museum Trust, jaipur, and the Jaigarh Public Charitable Trust as well as two schools and three hotels.