Bhubaneswar: With Pipili by-election approaching closer, the three major parties, BJD, BJP and Congress today announced the star camapigners.
BJD has named party president Naveen Patnaik, and senior leaders such as Pranab Prakash Das, Pinaki Misra, Atanu Sabyasachi Nayak, Debi Prasad Mishra, Sanjay Das Burna, Maheswar Mohanty, Pratap Deb, Samir Ranjan Dash and others.
For BJP, Union Ministers Dharmendra Pradhan, Ashwini Vaishnaw, Bisweswar Tudu, and MPs Jual Oram, Pratap Sarangi, Aparajita Sarangi, State Unit president Samir Mohanty, Baijayant Panda, Sambit Patra and others will be the star campaigners.
The Congress has named, A Chella Kumar, OPCC president Niranjan Patnaik, Narasingha Mishra, Pradeep Majhi, Suresh Routray, Prasad Harichandan, Santosh Singh Saluja, Md Moquim, Chiranjib Biswal, Jayadev Jena, Rama Chandra Khuntia and others as star campaigners for the by poll scheduled on September 30