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Of the 243 Assembly seats, the Congress is contesting 70 seats in an alliance with the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and the Left events.
The Congress on Saturday despatched an inventory of 30 star campaigners to the Election Commission (EC) for the primary section of the Bihar Assembly polls. The listing includes leaders who had questioned the get together’s management by a letter in August.
The listing, issued by basic secretary {K}.C. Venugopal, included Rajya Sabha MP Ghulam Nabi Azad, Akhilesh Prasad Singh and Raj Babbar, who have been a part of Group of 23 who had questioned the management, as properly Sachin Pilot who had rebelled in opposition to Rajashthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot.
Apart from Congress president Sonia Gandhi, former Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh, former get together chief Rahul Gandhi, basic secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, the names embrace film-star-turned-politician Shatrughan Sinha, former cricketer and MP Kirti Azad and standard Urdu poet Imran Pratapgarhi.
Other senior leaders who’ve been talked about in the listing embrace Meira Kumar, Randeep Surjewala and Nikhil Kumar amongst others.
Ms. Gandhi and Dr. Singh, nevertheless, are unlikely to journey to Bihar in the midst of the pandemic and the get together could as an alternative go for digital rallies for them.
The former get together chief is prone to be principal campaigner for the Congress though Mr. Gandhi’s election tour programme is but to be finalized, mentioned a supply.
Chief Ministers of Congress-ruled States together with Amarinder Singh (Punjab), Ashok Gehlot (Rajasthan), Bhupesh Baghel (Chhattisgarh) may also be a part of the opposition campaign.
Of the 243 Assembly seats in the State, the Congress is contesting 70 seats in an alliance with the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and the Left events. The RJD is main the coalition and can subject candidates in 144 seats.
The Congress has, up to now, introduced solely 21 names. The get together’s central election committee will meet on Monday to finalise names for the remaining 49 seats.
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