Lok Sabha polls will be held in seven phases from April 19. (File)
New Delhi:
The Congress on Sunday released the list of star campaigners who will campaign for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections in Uttar Pradesh for the Lok Sabha elections.
The names of the campaigners include top Congress leaders: National President Mallikarjun Kharge, Congress Parliamentary Party president Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra.
The list also includes names of some former chief ministers of the party.
Ashok Gehlot, Digvijay Singh, Bhupesh Baghel and Harish Rawat have been included as the star campaigners.
Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah, Himachal Pradesh CM Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu and Telangana CM Revanth Reddy will also campaign for the party in Uttar Pradesh.
Ajay Rai, Salman Khurshid, Sachin Pilot, Rajiv Shukla, Imran Pratapgarhi, Deepender Singh Hooda, Raj Babbar, Supriya Shrinate and Alka Lamba are also included.
Earlier, the Indian National Congress (INC) on Saturday released a list of 27 star campaigners for Jammu and Kashmir, including party president Mallikarjun Kharge, Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, among others.
The Lok Sabha elections will be held in seven phases from April 19.
Uttar Pradesh, which sends the maximum number of MPs, 80, to Parliament, will vote in all seven phases.
Voting for phases one and two will take place on April 19 and April 26. The state will then vote again in phases three and four on May 7 and 13.
The Uttar Pradesh electorate will also vote in phases five, six and seven on May 20, May 23 and June 1 respectively.
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