Bahujan Samaj Party has released a list of 40 star campaigners for the upcoming bypoll to Azamgarh Lok Sabha seat.
The bypoll has been necessitated by the resignations of Samajwadi Party MP Akhilesh Yadav after his election to UP assembly from Karhal constituency in March last.
The BSP has already announced Shah Alam alias Guddu Jamali as its candidate for the Azamgarh bypoll.
BSP chief and former chief minister of UP Mayawati will also be campaigning for her party candidate along with other senior leaders of the party for the next 15 days in Azamgarh.
The polling at Azamgarh will be held on June 23.
Samajwadi Party and Bharatiya Janata Party have also declared their candidates for the Azamgarh bypoll.
The SP has announced to field Sushil Anand while the BJP has announced Dinesh Lal ‘Nirahua’ as its candidate from Azamgarh, making the bypoll a multi-cornered contest.
Nirahua had tweeted on Friday asking the people in Azamgarh to vote for the BJP. He was the BJP candidate from Azamgarh in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls as well.
Nirahua wrote on Twitter, “Jati dharam na kauno bharam na kauno manbad ke liye. Kamal ka button dabih bhaiya Azamgarh ke liye. (Not for caste or any strongman, push the button of lotus for Azamgarh).”
Apart from Nirahua, pictures of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and BJP president JP Nadda were also on the poster that was tweeted by him.
Those whose names have been included by the BSP in the star campaigners’ list include BSP chief Mayawati, Bhim Rajbhar, Munquad Ali, Vijay Pratap, Rajkumar Gautam, Umashankar Singh, Manoj Kumar, Harishchandra Gautam, Onkar Shastri, Baliram, Indalram, Amarnath, Vinod Chauhan, Vijay Kumar, Santosh Ram, Sangeeta Azad, Azad Arimardan, Shalim Ansari, OP Tripathi, Arvind Kumar, Jitendra Kumar Bharti, Raj Vijay, Ashwini Kumar, Ram Vilas Bhaskar, Chetai Ram, Ramji Saroj, Hariram Bhaskar, Chandradhari Suman, Shailendra Maharaj, Shailendra Kumar, Rajesh Kumar, and Chandra Prakash Vimal.