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The Congress has released a list of star campaigners for the Assam and Bengal assembly elections. Ghulam Nabi Azad, Anand Sharma and Manish Tiwari have not got a place in this
The Congress has released the list of its star campaigners for the elections of West Bengal and Assam. Many leaders including Ghulam Nabi Azad, Anand Sharma, Manish Tiwari are not included in this list. The Election Commission has been given a star campaigners list by the Congress, which includes the names of former Prime Ministers Manmohan Singh, Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi.
Other leaders will be inducted when needed
Congress leader Pawan Kheda said that the party has just prepared a list of star campaigners as per the requirement. In view of future elections, other leaders will be included in the list of star campaigners.
Ghulam Nabi has been in the list of star campaigners of Congress for decades
Last week, Gulab Nabi Azad said that I have been included in the list of party’s star campaigners for the last four decades. This time too, in the five states where elections are to be held, I will go for campaigning so that the party can win. However, among the leaders of the G-23 group, Rajya Sabha MPs Akhilesh Prasad Singh and Jitin Prasad are included in the list of star campaigners. These leaders also wrote a letter a few months ago about the change of leadership in the Congress. Bhupendra Singh Hooda, Deepender Singh Hooda and Prithviraj Raj Chavan have been included in the promotional list of Assam elections. Apart from these, the party has given place to some other big leaders in this list.
These 30 leaders are in the list of pracharaks
Sonia Gandhi, Dr. Manmohan Singh, Rahul Gandhi, Mukul Wasnik, Bhupesh Baghel, Ashok Gehlot, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Salman Khurshid, Jitendra Singh, Vikas Upadhyay, Anirudh Singh, Navjot Singh Sidhu, Mohan Prakash, Nabam Tuki, Mukul Sangma, Sachin Pilot, Rameshwar Oraon, Ripun Bora, Debavrata Saikya, Pawan Singh Ghatowar, Pradyut Bordoloi, Rakibul Hussain, Gaurav Gogoi, Sushmita Dev, Bhupen Bora, Rana Goswami, Rani, Narah, Rupajyoti Kurmi, Roselina Tirkey and Pradeep Nag.
What is Group 23 Group-23 is a group of Congress leaders who raised the demand for organizational change within the party due to the Congress’s continued poor performance in the elections. In August last year, the top 23 Congress leaders created a ruckus by writing a letter. These leaders who wrote letters were called Group-23 (G-23). In the letter, these leaders had questioned the working style of the top leadership of the Congress. Ghulam Nabi Azad, Kapil Sibal, Shashi Tharoor, Manish Tiwari, Anand Sharma, PJ Kurian, Renuka Chaudhary, Milind Deora, Mukul Wasnik, Jitin Prasad Former Union Ministers, Bhupendra Singh Hooda, Rajinder Kaur Bhattal, M Veerappa Moily, Prithviraj Chavan, Ajay Singh, Raj Babbar, Arvinder Singh Lovely, Kaul Singh Thakur, Akhilesh Prasad Singh, Kuldeep Sharma, Yoganand Shastri, Sandeep Dixit, Vivek Tankha were included in this list.
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