Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, and BJP President J.P. Nadda have been named in the party’s list of 40 star campaigners for the second phase of Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir to be held on September 25.
Several BJP heavyweights such as Union Ministers Rajnath Singh, Nitin Gadkari, Manohar Lal Khattar, G. Kishan Reddy, Jitendra Singh, and Shivraj Singh Chouhan were also named in the list issued by party General Secretary Arun Singh.
Two sitting Chief Ministers — Yogi Adityanath (Uttar Pradesh) and Bhajanlal Sharma (Rajasthan) — also feature in the list of star campaigners.
Elections to the 90-member Assembly will be held in three phases — on September 18, September 25, and October 1. The ballots will be counted on October 8.
This will be the first Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir since 2014, and also the first after the abrogation of Article 370 in 2019.
The BJP was in an alliance with the Mehbooba Mufti-led Peoples Democratic Party from 2015 till 2018 before the end of the tie-up following which Governor’s Rule was imposed in the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir.
Here is the complete list of BJP’s star campaigners for the second phase polling in J&K:
Narendra Modi
J.P. Nadda
Rajnath Singh
Amit Shah
Nitin Gadkari
Manohar Lal Khattar
G. Kishan Reddy
Shivraj Singh Chouhan
Jai Ram Thakur
Jitendra Singh
Yogi Adityanath
Bhajan Lal Sharma
Ram Madhav
Tarun Chugh
Ashish Sood
Jugal Kishore Sharma
Jenab Ghulam Ali Khatana
Anurag Thakur
Smriti Irani
Gen V.K. Singh (retd)
Ravinder Raina
Ashok Kaul
Nirmal Singh
Kavinder Gupta
Shamsheer Singh Manhas
Sat Sharma
Sunil Sharma
Sukhnandan Choudhary
Pawan Khajuria
Darakshana Andrabi
Vikram Randhawa
Surinder Ambardar
Arun Prabhat Singh
Neelam Langeh
S. Ranjodh Singh Nawa
S. Sarbjit Singh Johal
Haji Javeed Zargar
Sanjita Dogra
Sunil Prajapati
Seema Devi
