New Delhi: Congress on Saturday released its list of campaigners for the upcoming Himachal Pradesh Assembly elections, news agency ANI reported.
Congress outgoing president Sonia Gandhi, party president-elect Mallikarjun Kharge, MP Rahul Gandhi, party leaders Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Ashok Gehlot, Bhupesh Baghel and Anand Sharma are among the campaigners.
This comes a day after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) released its list of star campaigners for the upcoming elections. Their list includes names of senior BJP leaders ranging from Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Party Chief J P Nadda, among others.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Home Minister Amit Shah, State Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar, Uttarkhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami, and Karnataka MP Tejasvi Surya are among those on the list.
The Himachal assembly poll ( Himachal Vidhan Sabha election) will be held in a single phase and the date of polling is November 12. The last date to file the nomination is October 25 and the counting of votes for the Himachal Pradesh assembly election will take place on December 8.
Notably, in the 2017 Himachal Pradesh assembly election, BJP won 44 out of 68 seats and formed the government. Congress was ousted from power and was able to gain only 21 assembly seats. Besides these two parties, CPI(M) was able to get one seat while two independent candidates won two Vidhan sabha seats.
After BJP won the assembly election in Himachal, it appointed Jai Ram Thakur to become the Chief Minister of the state.