Fresh faces, a clear mandate: Rajasthan's newly selected Community Liaison Group members have been tasked with a two-way mission — carry citizens' grievances to the police and administration, and carry the police's working methods back to the public. The Chief Minister's Office of Rajasthan issued the directive on Friday, 14 August 2026, tagging Chief Minister Bhajanlal Sharma under the state's flagship outreach banner #आपणो_अग्रणी_राजस्थान ('Our Leading Rajasthan').

The post, in Hindi, called on the navchayit CLG sadasya — newly constituted CLG members — to 'work actively in understanding the problems of the common people, conveying their concerns to the police and administration, and taking the police's functioning back to the public.' The directive is direct and operational: no ceremony, just a job description.

What CLGs do — and why they matter in Rajasthan

Community Liaison Groups (CLGs) are formal bodies constituted under the Rajasthan Police to serve as a structured interface between law enforcement and local residents. They are designed to surface everyday grievances — noise complaints, petty crime, delayed FIRs, neighbourhood disputes — before they fester into larger law-and-order problems. The idea is simple: give ordinary citizens a legitimate channel into the system, and give police a read on ground-level sentiment without waiting for a crisis.

Rajasthan governments across administrations have periodically reinvigorated these bodies, recognising that trust between police and public is not automatic — it is built through consistent, local-level contact. The current directive, addressed to a freshly selected cohort, signals that the Sharma government is pushing for an active, not merely nominal, CLG presence across the state.

CM Bhajanlal Sharma's community-policing push

Chief Minister Bhajanlal Sharma, who took office in December 2023 as the BJP's choice to lead Rajasthan, has framed accessible administration as a core governance promise. Tagging him directly in the CMO post is a deliberate signal: this is not a departmental circular, it is a political priority from the top. The hashtag #आपणो_अग्रणी_राजस्थान — 'Our Leading Rajasthan' — is the government's broader brand for citizen-first outreach initiatives.

The real test, as with every CLG cycle before it, will be whether the newly inducted members translate the directive into visible, consistent action at the mohalla and village level — or whether the mandate fades into paperwork.