CHANDIGARH: Congress president Sonia Gandhi, party leaders
Rahul Gandhi,
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and former Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh, besides Punjab Congress president Navjot Singh Sidhu and chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi are among the party’s star campaigners for the Punjab assembly elections.
A list of 30 star campaigners was issued by the party’s general secretary KC Venugopal on Friday.
Former Lok Sabha speaker Meira Kumar, Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot, Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel, Congress general secretary Ajay Maken and former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda and party incharge of Punjab affairs Harish Choudhary will also campaign in the state.
The other star campaigners are Anand Sharma, Kumari Selja, Randeep Singh Surjewala, Rajeev Shukla, Sachin Pilot, Deepender Singh Hooda, Ranjeet Ranjan, Netta D’Souza, BV Srinivas, Imran Pratapgarhi, Amrita Dhawan, and Tajender Singh Bittoo.
Congress sitting MLA from Jalalabad Raminder Awla, who has been replaced, is on the list. Ludhiana MP Ravneet Singh Bittu, Cabinet minister Amarinder Singh Raja Warring, campaign committee president Sunil Jakhar have also been named star campaigners. Congress Rajya Sabha members from Punjab Ambika Soni and Partap Singh Bajwa have also been included.
Vibhor Mohan is Special Correspondent with The Times of India’s P...
Read MoreVibhor Mohan is Special Correspondent with The Times of India’s Punjab Bureau at Chandigarh. He holds post-graduate degrees in Mass Communication and English and has nearly 15 years of experience, having covered important stations in Punjab. He covers news concerning Punjab politics, NRI affairs and the power sector, besides specializing in writing on architecture, especially on the works of Le Corbusier, the man who gave India its first designed city – Chandigarh.
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