BJP names 40 as campaigners in T

Hyderabad: Apart from Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP national president Amit Shah, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath, MP Hema Malini and MP Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti are the star campaigners of BJP for campaigning in the state.

Nine Union ministers including Rajnath Singh, Nitin Gadkari, Sushma Swaraj, Nirmala Sitharaman, JP Nadda, Uma Bharathi and Smriti Irani and party leaders PK Krishna Das and Aravind Limbavali will also campaign for BJP in the state.

These names feature among others in the list of campaigners for

Lok Sabha

election in the state, released by Telangana BJP. BJP national general secretary Arun Singh has sent the list to the

Election

Commission of India. Interestingly, the party also named Swamy Paripoornananda, who campaigned in the Assembly election and has been away from action for the past two months.

14 Telangana leaders will address the meetings and campaign for the party candidates in the elections.

BJP state president K Laxman said the campaigners will visit the state and address meetings depending on the requirement.