Ahead of the Bihar Assembly elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has released its list of 40 star campaigners, which includes several top leaders including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP president JP Nadda and Union ministers Rajnath Singh and Amit Shah. Many prominent leaders, chief ministers and celebrities are included in this list. This includes 5 BJP Chief Ministers – Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, Assam Chief Minister Hemanta Biswa Sarma, Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav and Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis.
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The list also includes people who have been away from the political limelight for some time, and among those who have not got tickets to contest the elections, former Union Cabinet Minister Smriti Irani is the biggest name, which also includes former Union Ministers Ravi Shankar Prasad, Radha Mohan Singh, Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti and Ashwini Kumar Choubey. Apart from him, both Deputy CMs of Bihar Samrat Chaudhary and Vijay Kumar Sinha, former Deputy CM Renu Devi and several other ministers of state are also included.
The list also includes Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya and Union Water Minister CR Patil, Dr. Dilip Kumar Jaiswal, Prem Kumar, Nityanand Rai, Satish Chandra Dubey, Raj Bhushan Chaudhary, Ashwini Kumar Choubey, Rajiv Pratap Rudy, Dr. Sanjay Jaiswal, Vinod Tawde, Babulal Marandi, Pradeep Kumar Singh, Gopalji Thakur and Janak Ram. It also includes some big names of Bhojpuri cinema, actor-singer turned politician Pawan Singh, Manoj Tiwari, Ravi Kishan, Dinesh Lal Yadav “Nirahua”.
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The last date for nomination for the first phase of Bihar assembly elections is October 17, while voting will take place on November 6. Earlier on Wednesday, Bharatiya Janata Party released its third list of candidates for Bihar Assembly elections, which included 18 names.