In the early 1990s, as Rajasthan CM, Shekhawat was accused of "shielding" son-in-law (Shekhawat has only one child, a daughter) Narpat Singh Rajvi%u2014currently industries minister in the Vasundhararaje government. Rajvi had claimed compensation in lieu of land, acquired for the Indira Gandhi Canal in Bikaner district, which actually did not belong to him. The matter figured for several days in the state assembly, when Congress MLA Surendra Vyas raised the matter. A revenue inquiry established that Rajvi's father, who had been a tehsildar in his time, had manipulated land records to show Rajvi as owner of a substantial chunk of agricultural land in Bikaner's Momewala village. The controversy centred around the fact that the land records predated Rajvi's birth.
In the same period, Shalini Sharma, a minor BJP leader from Alwar, who was appointed state social welfare board vice president by the Shekhawat government, was convicted and jailed, along with her husband, for allowing a young lady teacher who worked in a school run by her to be sexually exploited. Only the Sharmas were convicted, but media reports at the time suggested that the young woman had been "supplied" to a range of powerful BJP ministers and MLAs. Shekhawat and Rajvi were both accused in the media of having promoted Shalini.
