Chandigarh: The Congress party has drawn up its final list of 40 star campaigners for elections to the Punjab Legislative Assembly. The list features the party’s regular election campaigners such Sonia Gandhi, Manmohan Singh and Rahul Gandhi along with select AICC office bearers at the national level. It has 15 politicians belonging to Punjab. The party is relying almosty entirely on its battery of political heavy weights to draw the crowds with Sonu Sood being the only Bollywood personality to be included in the list.
1. Sonia Gandhi, President, INC
2. Mamnohan Singh, former PM of India
3. Rahul Gandhi, MP and Vice-President, INC
4. Ambika Soni, MP and GS, AICC
5. Digvijay Singh, GS, AICC
6. Mukul Wasnik, GS, AICC
7. Asha Kumari, In-Charge, Punjab
8. Captain Amarinder Singh, President, Punjab PCC
9. Charanjit Singh Channi, CLP Leader, Punjab
10. Virbhadra Singh, CM, Himachal Pradesh
11. Sushil Kumar Shinde, former Union Minister
12. Meira Kumar, former Speaker, Lok Sabha
13. Anand Sharma, MP and Senior Spokesperson, AICC
14. Oscar Fernandes, MP
15. Dr. Shakeel Ahmad, Senior Spokesperson, AICC
16. Ashok Gehlot, former CM, Rajasthan
17. Pawan Kumar Bansal, former Union Minister
18. Sachin Pilot, President, Rajasthan PCC
19. Raj Babbar, President, UPCC
20. Ashok Chaudhary, President, Bihar PCC
21. Pratap Singh Bajwa, MP
22. Jyotiraditya Scindia, MP
23. Ranjeet Ranjan, MP
24. Rajinder Kaur Bhattal, MLA and former CM, Punjab
25. K.Raju, Chairman, SC Department, AICC
26. Harish Chaudhary, Secretary, AICC
27. Thakur Kaul Singh, Minister of Revenue and Health, Government of HP
28. Ravneet Bittu, MP
29. Ch. Santokh Singh, MP
30. Shamsher Singh Dullo, MP
31. Mohd. Azharuddin, Ex-MP
32. Sunil Kumar Jakhar, MLA
33. Preneet Kaur, Ex-MP
34. Navjot Singh Sidhu, Ex-MP
35. Arvinder Singh Lovely, former President, Delhi PCC
36. Laal Singh, MLA
37. Manpreet Singh Badal, Vice-President, PPCC
38. Amarinder Singh Raja Warring, President, IYC
39. Sobha Oza, President, All India Mahila Congress
40. Sonu Sood