Senior Congress leaders including Mallikarjun Kharge and Sonia Gandhi have been named among the star campaigners for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections in Uttar Pradesh.
The pary released a list of 40 names — also including Wayanad MP Rahul Gandhi and former Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot — on Thursday for the fourth phase of Lok Sabha elections.
Uttar Pradesh (which sends the maximum number of MPs to Parliament) is voting in all seven phases.
Voting for phase one was held on April 13 and phase two is scheduled on Friday.
The Uttar Pradesh electorate will also vote in phases five, six and seven on May 20, May 23 and June 1 respectively.
Senior Congress leaders including Mallikarjun Kharge and Sonia Gandhi have been named among the star campaigners for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections in Uttar Pradesh. The pary released a list of 40 names — also including Wayanad MP Rahul Gandhi and former Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot — on Thursday for the fourth phase of Lok Sabha elections.
Uttar Pradesh (which sends the maximum number of MPs to Parliament) is voting in all seven phases. Voting for phase one was held on April 13 and phase two is scheduled on Friday. Votes will be counted across the country on June 4.
Polling for the third phase will occur on May 7, followed by voting on May 13 for the fourth phase. The Uttar Pradesh electorate will also vote in phases five, six and seven on May 20, May 23 and June 1 respectively.
Here is the full list:
Mallikarjun Kharge
Sonia Gandhi
Rahul Gandhi
Priyanka Gandhi
Avinash Pande
Ajai Rai
Aradhana Mishra Mona
Salman Khurshid
Ashok Gehlot
Pramod Tiwari
Sachin Pilot
Nirmal Khatri
Raj Babbar
PL Punia
Ajay Kumar Lallu
Deepender Singh Hooda
Pradeep Mathur
Vivek Bansal
Nasimuddin Siddiqi
Sanjay Kapoor
Iman Pratapgarhi
Zafar Ali Naqvi
Ravi Verma
Imran Kidwai
BP Singh
Dheeraj Gurjar
Nilanshu Chaturvedi
Tauquir Alam
Nakul Dubey
Hazi Ikram
Rajesh Lilothia
Supriya Shrinate
Harendra Agarwal
Afroj Ali Khan
Deepak Singh
Imran Masood
Nadeem Javed
Rajkumar Rawat
Yogesh Dixit
Sharad Mishra
Voting will take place from 7 am on Friday across 13 states and union territories. The second phase has 88 Lok Sabha constituencies including all 20 seats in Kerala, 14 in Karnataka, 13 in Rajasthan, eight in Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh, five each in Assam and Bihar, six in Madhya Pradesh, three each in Chhattisgarh and West Bengal and one each in Tripura, Manipur and Jammu and Kashmir.
(With inputs from agencies)
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