Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Minister and former Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh Uma Bharti would not campaign for one parliamentary and one assembly constituency by-poll of the State scheduled for November 21.
A galaxy of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders including its president Amit Shah and union ministers Sushma Swaraj, Jual Oram, Narendra Singh Tomar, Smriti Irani, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and State president and MP Nandkumar Singh Chouhan would campaign for the party in the by-polls for Ratlam parliamentary constituency and Devas assembly constituency. Election for both these constituencies is scheduled for November 21.
BJP has submitted its list of star campaigners with the Election Commission of India (ECI) for the by-election to the 24 Ratlam (ST) Parliamentary Constituency and 171 Devas legislative Assembly Constituency of the State.
The other leaders named in the list of star campaigners submitted with the ECI by party national general secretary and in-charge headquater Arun Singh include national vice president and organisational in-charge for Madhya Pradesh Vinay Sahasrabuddhe, Thanwarchand Gehlot, Kailash Vijayvargiya, Arjun Munda, Kailash Joshi, Prabhat Jha, Arvind Menon, krishanmurari Moghe, Vikram Verma, Satyanarayan Jatiya, Raghunandan Sharma, Yashodhara Raje Scindia, Tanveer Ahmed, Gopal Bhargav, Maya Singh, Narottam Mishra, Usha Thakur, Paras Jain, Satyanarayan Sattan, Rampal Singh, Umashankar Gupta, Vinod Gotiya, lata Vankhere, Omprakash Khatik, Hidayatullah Sheikh, Archana Chitnis, Vijendra Singh Sisodiya, Arvind Bhadoriya, Tapan Bhomik, Deepak Joshi, Manohar Untwal, Surendra Patwa and Amardeep Morya.
The list does not have the name of Union Minister and former Chief Minister of the State Uma Bharti.