Rahul, Sonia, Priyanka, Manmohan feature in Congress' list of star campaigners

The Congress party has released its list of star campaigners for upcoming Haryana assembly elections. Rahul Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh featured among prominent names in the list of star campaigners. Ashok Tanwar, who resigned on Thursday from all election committees of the party, was also named in the list.

Others in the list include Ghulam Nabi Azad, Ahmed Patel, Captain Amarinder Singh, Ashok Gehlot, Kamal Nath, Bhupinder Singh Hooda, Kumari Selja, Bhupesh Baghel, Anand Sharma, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Captain Ajay Singh Yadav, Kiran Chaudhary, Randeep Singh Surjewala, Kuldeep Bishnoi, Deepender Hooda.

Here is the full list of star campaigners:

Full list of Congress star campaigners

Meanwhile, Haryana has the strength of 90 seats out of which 17 are reserved for SCs and none for STs. There are 1.82 crore registered voters in the state out of which 1.07 lakh are service voters.

The Election Commission of India (ECI) has slated the single-phase voting for the 90-member Haryana Assembly elections on October 21 and the counting of votes is scheduled on October 24.

The last date of filing nominations is October 4 and the scrutiny will take place on October 5. The candidates can withdraw their nomination till October 7.

Manohar Lal Khattar-led BJP government is in power in Haryana after the party won 47 out of a total of 90 seats in the 2014 Assembly elections, while the Congress was restricted to just 15 seats.

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