A Cong supporter outside the AICC office in Delhi. File photo
Aditi Tandon
New Delhi, January 24
Ghulam Nabi Azad, who was part of the G-23 group, former Haryana CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda and his MP son Deepender have been named alongside Gandhis and former PM Manmohan Singh in the list of 30 star campaigners of the Congress for the February 10 phase one elections in UP.
Congress chief Sonia Gandhi leads the segment with Manmohan Singh, Rahul Gandhi and AICC general secretary, UP, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra among the top four campaigners for the state.
Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot, his Chhattisgarh counterpart Bhupesh Baghel and former Rajasthan deputy CM Sachin Pilot have also been enlisted as Congress faces the uphill task of revival in UP, where it was reduced to the lowest-ever tally of seven seats in the 2017 elections.
The party has also named former JNU Students’ Union president Kanhaiya Kumar and Pariniti Shinde, daughter of former Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde, in the list, which features former Union Ministers Salman Khurshid and RPN Singh, former UP Congress president Raj Babbar, incumbent state chief Ajay Lallu and CLP leader Aradhna Mishra.
Selection of star campaigners, with appeal to a cross-section of communities, reveals the Congress urge to stem the slide in UP where the party has consistently lost support bases.
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