New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday released a list of 30-star campaigners for the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections 2022. While many star campaigners such as Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah and party national president JP Nadda are on the list, party MPs and mother-son duo Maneka Gandhi and Varun Gandhi have been excluded from it.
The duo has been victorious multiple times from Sultanpur and Pilibhit. In the recent rejig of the BJP national executive committee, the two were also dropped from that list.
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The first name in the BJP's list of star campaigners is that of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, followed by party national president JP Nadda.[/caption]
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The first name in the BJP's list of star campaigners is that of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, followed by party national president JP Nadda. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and BJP candidate from Gorakhpur Yogi Adityanath also features on that list of star campaigners for the state Assembly elections 2022.
Among others on the list are Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Home Minister Amit Shah and state president Swatantra Dev Singh. Union Ministers Dharmendra Pradhan, Smriti Irani, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, Dinesh Sharma Keshav Prasad Maurya; and Sanjeev Balyan and Radha Mohan Singh are also on the list.
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Given the constraints of campaigning amid Covid, the BJP is likely to hit the campaign trail in Uttar Pradesh in a phased-out manner.[/caption]
Given the constraints of campaigning amid Covid, the BJP is likely to hit the campaign trail in Uttar Pradesh in a phased-out manner doing door-to-door campaigning and from there on doing closed-door meetings, which would allow 300 persons.
The Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections will be held in seven phases from February 10 to March 7.
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The Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections will be held in seven phases from February 10 to March 7.[/caption]
-PTC News
