CM Bhajan Lal marks PM Modi's 25 years in public service
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Twenty-five years after Narendra Modi first stepped into elected office as Chief Minister of Gujarat, a new milestone lands — and Rajasthan's top leader is among the first to mark it. Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma on Wednesday, October 7, 2026, extended warm congratulations to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on completing a historic quarter-century of uninterrupted public service, conveying the wishes of the people of Veerbbhoomi Rajasthan (the brave land of Rajasthan).
From Gujarat's CM chair to India's 'Pradhan Sewak'
CM Sharma's post traces Modi's arc from solving acute water scarcity in Gujarat's villages, to turning girls' education into a mass movement, to simultaneously accelerating industry and agriculture — describing those Gujarat-era experiments as a 'model for the entire country today.' The phrase 'Pradhan Sewak' (chief servant) — Modi's own preferred self-description over 'Prime Minister' — anchors the tribute's framing of governance as service rather than power.
Roads, rails, rockets — and semiconductors: the 25-year ledger
Sharma's message, posted under the hashtag #25YearsOfSeva, catalogues a sweeping range of sectoral advances: road, rail, and digital infrastructure; defence production; space technology; and the semiconductor ecosystem. The pairing is deliberate — listing old-economy physical connectivity alongside cutting-edge deep-tech signals a narrative of India leaping developmental stages rather than climbing them one by one. The CM frames this as the realisation of a governing philosophy he quotes as: 'Vikas bhi, Virasat bhi; Vigyan bhi, Sanskriti bhi' — 'Development and heritage; science and culture.'
Rajasthan's pledge to 'Viksit Bharat'
The message closes with a direct political commitment: Veer Dhara Rajasthan is 'fully committed' to realising Modi's 'Viksit Bharat' (Developed India) vision. That pledge connects Sharma's state government to the Centre's flagship long-range goal — a developed-nation benchmark by 2047, India's centenary of independence. Sharma ends with a personal prayer for Modi's good health, long life, and continued guidance of the nation 'with the same unbroken energy.'
The tribute is warm in register, big in sweep, and very deliberate in alignment — a sitting state CM publicly threading his administration's ambitions into the Prime Minister's larger national project.