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Congress broadcasts a listing of 30-star campaigners for Bengal elections

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Congress has launched a listing of 30 potential star campaigners for the upcoming meeting polls in West Bengal. The marketing campaign contains Party’s interim chief Sonia Gandhi, ex-PM Dr Manmohan Singh & celebration leaders Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Sachin Pilot, Navjot Singh Sidhu, Abhijit Mukherjee and Mohd Azharuddin.
Congress common secretary KC Venugopal, in his letter to the Election Commission, mentioned that the next leaders of the Indian National Congress can be campaigning as per Section 77(1) of the Representation of People Act 1951, for the following first section of elections to the legislative meeting of West Bengal to be held on March 27.
Congress releases checklist of 30 star campaigners for West Bengal. Party’s interim chief Sonia Gandhi, ex-PM Dr Manmohan Singh & celebration leaders Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Sachin Pilot, Navjot Singh Sidhu, Abhijit Mukherjee and Mohd Azharuddin included.#WestBengalElections pic.twitter.com/3BuMssL0aw— ANI (@ANI) March 12, 2021
Senior Congress chief Rahul Gandhi is among the many checklist of star campaigners in West Bengal. Gandhi would maybe attempt to lighten the intensifying political setting in Bengal along with his inanities or by competing with individuals in push-ups on his marketing campaign path. He may even bounce within the Hooghly river to flaunt his “six-pack” abs and commune with the native fishermen. There is an everlasting doubt in some individuals’s thoughts over whether or not Rahul Gandhi is actually the star campaigner of the Congress celebration or the opposition events.
additionally it is notable that after an in depth marketing campaign towards the left-front authorities in Kerala, Rahul Gandhi will attraction for votes for the Congress-left alliance in West Bengal. It is to to be seen whether or not he assaults incumbent chief minister Mamata Banerjee, as TMC is Congress ally on the nationwide stage.
Former PM Manmohan Singh, maybe, would energise the Congress marketing campaign by being himself, which is by being sustaining a stoic silence. Scam-tainted Mohd Azharuddin can also be included within the checklist of the campaigners for the upcoming polls in West Bengal. As far as opinion polls go, Congress appears to be in a tough scenario in West Bengal they usually may want the providers of Azharduddin to ‘fix’ the problems plaguing them.
However, what’s shocking is that the senior Congress chief Dr Udit Raj, who’s projected by his followers as the subsequent Congress President, has not made the reduce.
Another spotlight of the star campaigner checklist is the presence of Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu. It is, nonetheless, unclear how Sidhu, who fell from the grace after he visited Pakistan the place he was seen posing alongside Khalistani terrorist Gopal Singh Chawla, would assist revive Congress’ dying fortunes.
It is pertinent to notice that although Rahul Gandhi retains trotting out that India is not a democracy beneath the BJP rule, it looks like the Congress celebration has additionally ceased to be a democratic establishment the place dissenting voices should not honoured and revered. Not a single member of the G-23 leaders, who appealed for a whole overhaul and sweeping new reforms inside the celebration, have been included within the checklist of 30-star campaigners.
Earlier, senior Congress chief Veerappa Moily even rubbished the existence of G-23, stating that the celebration is united beneath Sonia Gandhi’s management. “The Congress is one,” he mentioned when requested concerning the distinction of opinion inside the celebration.
While Moily and different senior leaders have dismissed the existence of G-23, it’s a unfastened coalition of a gaggle of dissenters within the celebration who’ve been, repeatedly, calling for a whole revamp of the celebration. Even Ghulam Nabi Azad, one of many foremost Congress veteran, has not been included within the checklist of celebration’s star campaigners in West Bengal. Azad could have fallen out of favour with the Congress celebration and their feudal lords ‘The Gandhis’ after heaping effusive praises on PM Modi.