All India Congress Committee has named party president Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh into a strong list of star campaigners for lok Sabha polls in Jharkhand. The list also included Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi, Defense Minister AK Antony, Finance Minister P Chidambaram, Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde and Health Minister Gulam Nabi Azad.
This apart, senior leaders, Cabinet Ministers and office bearers of the party would also participate in the electioneering that would undergo polls for 14 lok Sabha in three different phases. Senior leaders Moti lal Vora, Ambika Soni, BK Hariprasad, Digvijay Singh, Mohsina Kidwai, Shakil Ahmad, Anand Sharma, Kumari Sailja, Satyavrat Chaturvedi, Jairam Ramesh, Randeep Singh Surjewala have been incorporated into the list.
Top State leaders like PCC president Sukhdeo Bhagat, ClP leader Rajendra Singh, Pradeep Balmuchu, Dheeraj Prasad Sahu, KN Tripathi, KN Jha, Tilakdhari Singh, Alamgir Alam, Sarfaraz Ahmad, Stephen Marandi, Geetashree Oraon, Yogendra Sao, Mannan Mallik, Gulfam Mujibi and some other leaders from the party’s State unit have been named into the strong list of 40. The Congress is fighting on nine lok Sabha seats out of 14 in Jharkhand leaving four for JMM and one for the RJD.