Sonia, Manmohan, others as congress campaigners for Karnataka elections

Team Udayavani, Apr 26, 2018, 3:29 PM IST

Bengaluru: The Congress will have 40 of its senior pioneers including the party’s former president Sonia Gandhi, senior leader and former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and current President Rahul Gandhi, to campaign in the state.

In a letter to the Election Commission (EC) composed by senior party leader Motilal Vora on Tuesday, the 40 pioneers have been picked as the “star campaigners” for the Congress. 

To guarantee the Congress’ success in the upcoming assembly elections, the party has chosen the following campaigners: Lok Sabha legislator from Thiruvananthapuram Kerala- Shashi Tharoor, Rajasthan unit Congress presdient Sachin Pilot, the leader of the party in the Lok Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge, Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad, the party’s Lok Sabha MP from Madhya Pradesh Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia and former cricketer and party pioneer Mohammad Azharuddin among others. 

Furthermore, Congress pioneers from Karnataka like the state incharge K.C. Venugopal, state unit president G. Parameshwara, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, Lok Sabha legislator and former Chief Minister M. Veerappa Moily and state unit working President Dinesh Gundu Rao, among others, will likewise campaign along.

The party said it will likewise acquire famous appearances from the film industry for campaigning like actor turned-legislator Raj Babbar, actor and party representative Kushboo Sundar, eminent Kannada actor and sitting MLA from Mandya M.H. Ambareesh and former Kannada actress and Congress social media in charge Ramya. 

Similarly, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) which is likewise challenging in a couple of Karnataka’s 224 electorates, has additionally named its “star campaigners”. 

The AAP President and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia and other party pioneers like its Rajya Sabha official Sanjay Singh, Ashutosh and actor and party member Gul Panag among a couple of others, are relied upon to visit the election bound state in the coming days. 

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will have Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a large group of Union Ministers and senior leaders campaigning for the party in Karnataka. 

Other than Modi and BJP national President Amit Shah, Union Ministers Sushma Swaraj (External Affairs), Smriti Irani (Information and Broadcasting), Nirmala Sitharaman (Defense), Ravi Shankar Prasad (Law and Justice), Piyush Goyal (Railways) and the gathering’s Lok Sabha official and veteran actress Hema Malini will soon be making a direct route to the state for campaigning. 

Modi is required to visit every one of the state’s four districts – coastal, north, central and south – other than Bengaluru and Mysuru, beginning May 1, addressing two-to-three rallies a day till May 10.