Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah, and nine film personalities, including Hema Malini, will campaign for the saffron party candidates for the 21 Lok Sabha and 147 Assembly elections in Odisha.
The BJP on Wednesday released its list of 40 “star campaigners” for Odisha which is scheduled to go to polls in four phases on April 11, 18, 23 and 29.
The 40-member list, submitted at the office of the Chief Electoral Officer, names Prime Minister Narendra Modi and several Union ministers including Rajnath Singh, Nitin Gadkari, Smriti Irani, Prakash Javadekar, Jual Oram, Dharmendra Pradhan, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and the BJP national spokesman Sambit Patra, as the star campaigners.
In addition, former BJP chief ministers Raman Singh, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Arjun Munda and former Odisha chief minister Giridhar Gomango also figure in the list of campaigners.
The list of star campaigners issued by BJP’s State unit vice-president Samir Mohanty also contained names of Odia film stars such as Mihir Das, Sritam Das, Maheswata Ray, Aparajita Mohanty, Anu Choudhury, Pinki Pradhan, Ashrumochan Mohanty and Harihar Mohapatra.
