The Congress, in its run up to Assembly Poll 2013, Thursday lined up star campaigners for the first phase voting scheduled on November 11. While the party president Sonia Gandhi, her deputy Rahul Gandhi and Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh topped the list of political bigwigs including a number of Union ministers, chief ministers of Congress ruled states who will hit the campaign trail shortly, personalities of tinsel towns Chranjeevi, Raj Babbar, sister of Sanjay Dutt Priya Dutt, Cricketer turned politician Azharuddin and others will also be converging in Chhattisgarh for wooing the young voters.
Combination of star-studded campaigners’ list gave ample indication how the party has made elaborate efforts to focus on every section of the electorate which also comprised a sizeable section of people originated from neighbouring states like Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and others. The party strategists have made every effort to make the list a fine mélange of Experience, Youth and Extravaganza.
The list comprised the names of Sonia Gandhi (AICC President), Rahul Gandhi (AICC Vice President), Dr Manmohan Singh (Prime Minister), Motilal Vora (AICC Treasurer), BK Hariprasad (AICC Gen Secy and Chhattisgarh In-charge), Charandas Mahant (CGPCC President), Ravindra Choubey (Chhattisgarh Congress legislature Party leader), Digvijay Singh (AICC Gen Secy), Mukul Vasnik (AICC Gen Secy), Ajit Jogi (Former Chief Minister), Mohsina Kidwai (MP), Bhakta Charan Das (AICC Secy), Priya Dutt, Raj Babbar, Prithviraj Chouhan (Maharashtra CM), Bhupinder Singh Hooda (Haryana CM), Union Ministers Kamal Nath, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Sriprakash Jaiswal, Jairam Ramesh, Ku Seilja, Srikant Jena, Jitin Prasada, Sachin Pilot, Chiranjeevi, Azharuddin (MP), Giridhar Gamang (Ex CM Odisha), P l Punia (MP), Satpal Maharaj (MP), Sukhdeo Bhagat (President Jharkhand PCC), Rajendra Prasad Singh, Jaydev Jena, Bhupinder Singh, Rajiv Satav (President Youth Congress), Rohit Choudhary (President NSUI), Mahendra Joshi (Organiser Seva Dal), Sobha Ojha (President Mahila Congress), Uttam Vasudev (President CGYC), Devendra Yadav (President state NSUI) and Ashok Ahuja (Chief Organiser State Seva Dal).