Congress president Sonia Gandhi, vice-president Rahul Gandhi and former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will be amongst the 40 star campaigners of the party for the Assembly polls in Haryana.
After the defeat in the lok Sabha polls, the three have not addressed any political meeting in the poll bound states of Haryana and Maharashtra even though BJP’s star campaigner Narendra Modi has addressed meetings in his official capacity in both the states.
The names of other star campaigners includ AICC general secretary in-charge of Haryana, Shakeel Ahmed, Ashok Tanwar, president Haryana Congress, Bhupinder Singh Hooda, CM Haryana, Janardan Dwivedi, general secretary AICC, Captain Amrinder Singh, Dy leader of Opposition in lS and Gulam Nabi Azad leader of opposition in Rajya Sabha.
Others in the list of 40 include Anand Sharma, Dy leader of Opposition RS, General Secretaries of AICC -- Ambika Soni, Digvijay Singh and Ajay Maken, Virbhadara Singh, CM Himachal Pradesh, Harish Rawat, CM Uttrakhand, Selja, MP RS, Deepender Singh Hooda MP, Dr Ram Prakash former president of Haryana PCC, Asha Kumari Secy AICC, Meira Kumar former speaker lS, Raj Babbar, former MP, Sachin Pilot, president of Rajsthan PCC, Jyotiraditya Scindia, MP, Mohd. Azharuddin former MP, Ashok Gehlot, former CM Rajsthan, Sheila Dikshit former CM Delhi, Rajinder Kaur Bhattal former CM Punjab and Jai Kishan MlA Delhi.
The list also includes the names of Haryana Ministers Capt. Ajay Yadav and Kiran Chaudhary, Naveen Jindal, former MP, Shruti Chaudhary former MP, Pratap Singh Bajwa, president PPCC, Sunil Jakhar ClP leader Punjab, Arvinder Singh president of Delhi PCC, Salman Khurshid, former Union Minister, Ravneet Singh Bittu, MP, Preneet Kaur, MlA, Thakur Kaul Singh, Minister HP and Jitender Singh former Union Minister.