Patna- Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and senior leaders Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Kanhaiya Kumar and independent MP Pappu Yadav are among the party's 40 star campaigners for the second phase of Bihar assembly elections.
Bihar AICC in-charge Krishna Allavaru, Bihar Congress chief Rajesh Ram, Congress general secretary KC Venugopal, Bhupesh Baghel, Sachin Pilot, Randeep Surjewala and Syed Naseer Hussain, along with senior leaders Ashok Gehlot, Tariq Anwar, Gaurav Gogoi, Mohammad Javed and Akhilesh Prasad Singh are also included in this list of star campaigners.
Bihar elections will be held in two phases on November 6 and 11, and the results will be declared on November 14. The opposition party's India alliance, in which the Rashtriya Janata Dal, Congress and Left parties are the main partners, on Thursday announced RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav as its chief ministerial candidate for the Bihar elections.
Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu, senior leaders Digvijay Singh, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, Meira Kumar, Pramod Tiwari, Ajay Rai, Imran Pratapgarhi, Pawan Khera, Shakeel Ahmed, Ranjit Ranjan, Rajesh Ranjan alias Pappu Yadav, Jignesh Mevani, Anil Jaihind and Rajinder Pal Gautam are also star campaigners for the second phase of the campaign.