Summary:
In 1985, when he 34, he became the youngest Rajasthan Congress chief. After all, the Gandhi loyalist has a history of working closely with prime ministers — Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi — and party leader, Sonia. The postgraduate in economics with a law degree enjoys a clean image as a politician and a family man with a daughter and son. Old-timers recall how Atal Bihari Vajpayee would try to coax Shekhawat to come to Delhi, but he would demur. He contested the Lok Sabha poll from Jodhpur in 1980 when he was 29 and became Union minister at 31..