New Delhi: Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge, CPP Chairperson Sonia Gandhi, former party chief Rahul Gandhi and his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra are among the 40 ‘star campaigners’ whose names were announced on Saturday for the first phase of Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir scheduled on September 18.
The list, issued by Congress General Secretary K.C. Venugopal, also includes his own name besides some prominent party leaders like Jairam Ramesh, Ambika Soni, Ajay Maken, Salman Khurshid, and Kanhaiya Kumar, among others.
The names of Himachal Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu, former Punjab CM Charanjit Singh Chhanni, ex-Rajasthan Deputy Chief Minister Sachin Pilot also feature in the list. Election to the 90-member Jammu and Kashmir Assembly will be held in three phases — on September 18, September 25, and October 1.
The ballots will be counted on October 8. This will be the first Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir since 2014, and also the first after the abrogation of Article 370 in 2019.
The Congress has already stitched an alliance with the National Conference for the elections. Here is the complete list of Congress’ star campaigners for the first phase of Jammu and Kashmir polls: 1. Mallikarajun Kharge 2. Rajani Patil 3. Sonia Gandhi 4. Rajiv Shukla 5. Rahul Gandhi 6. Manish Tewari 7. Priyanka Gandhi Vadra 8. Imran Pratapgarhi 9. K.C. Venugopal 10. Kishori Lal Sharma 11. Ajay Maken 12. Ranjit Ranjan 13. Ambika Soni 14. Raman Bhalla 15. Bharatsinh Solanki 16. Tarachand 17. Tariq Hameed Karra 18. Chaudhary Lal Singh 19. Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu 20. Peerzada Mohd. Sayeed 21. Jairam Ramesh 22. Imran Masood 23. Ghulam Ahmad Mir 24. Pawan Khera 25. Sachin Pilot 26. Supriya Shrinate 27. Mukesh Agnihotri 28. Kanhaiya Kumar 29. Charanjit Singh Channi 30. Manoj Yadav 31. Salman Khurshid 32. Shahnawaz Chaudhary 33. Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa 34. Rajesh Lilothia 35. Amrinder Singh Raja Warring 36. Alka Lamba 37. Syed Nasir Hussain 38. Srinivas B.V. 39. Vikar Rasool Wani 40. Neeraj Kundan
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