The Congress national president Sonia Gandhi, party vice president Rahul Gandhi and former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh have been named in the list of ‘star-campaigners’ for the Congress in the Vidhan Sabha election in Uttarakhand.
The list of 40 star campaigners for the Congress was submitted by the party’s treasurer Motilal Vora to the Election Commission of India.
The list of star campaigners slated to campaign in favour of the Congress candidates in Uttarakhand also includes the Congress state in charge Ambika Soni, Chief Minister Harish Rawat, Pradesh Congress Committee president Kishore Upadhyay, senior party leaders Ghulam Nabi Azaad, Himachal Pradesh chief minister Virbhadra Singh, former Union minister Anand Sharma, former chief minister of Rajasthan, Ashok Gehlot, Amarinder Singh, Mukul Wasnik, former union minister Sushil Kumar Shinde, Kumari Selja, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Jitendra Singh, Ajay Maken, Manish Tiwari, Sachin Pilot, Randeep Singh Surjewala, Shobha Oza, Amrinder Singh Raja Brar, former cricketer turned politician recently shifting from the Bharatiya Janata Party to the Congress, Navjot Singh Sidhu, Deepa Dasmunshi, Khurshid Alam and Balbir Singh.
Further, the list of the party’s star campaigners also includes state cabinet minister and the party’s Haldwani candidate Indira Hridayesh, Pradeep Tamta, Uttarakhand cabinet minister Pritam Singh, Renuka Rawat, Jot Singh Bisht, Vijay Saraswat, Mathura Dutt Joshi, Rajiv Jain, Anupam Sharma, Rajendra Bhandari, Tarun Pant, Balbir Singh, Gulzar, Sushil Pengoval and Amarjit Singh.
Meanwhile, the Pradesh Congress Committee president Kishore Upadhyay flagged off the party’s campaign vehicles from the Congress Bhawan on Friday.
While the Congress released its list of star campaigners for the Vidhan Sabha election in Uttarakhand, political analysts opine that coming days and intensity of campaigning will present a clearer picture of the electoral scope for victory for candidates of the Congress party who are fighting varied factors including the anti-incumbency factor in the state.