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BJP issues list of star campaigners for Salt by-poll

Thursday, 01 April 2021 | PNS | Dehradun

The Bharatiya Janata Party has released a list of star campaigners for the Salt assembly by-election to be held on April 17. Though the list initially shared by the party contained the names of 30 party leaders excluding former CMs Trivendra Singh Rawat and Vijay Bahuguna, the BJP state media in-charge Manveer Singh Chauhan clarified that their names had been mistakenly omitted, adding that they had already been included in the star campaigners’ list earlier.

The star campaigners of the party include chief minister Tirath Singh Rawat, BJP state president Madan Kaushik, party state in-charge Dushyant Kumar Gautam, co-in charge Rekha Verma, Union minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’, former chief ministers Trivendra Singh Rawat, Vijay Bahuguna, MPs Ajay Bhatt, Ajay Tamta, Rajya Laxmi Shah, Anil Baluni and Naresh Bansal will campaign for the BJP candidate Mahesh Jeena. Among the cabinet ministers, Satpal Maharaj, Banshidhar Bhagat, Harak Singh Rawat, Bishan Singh Chufal, Yashpal Arya, Arvind Pandey, Subodh Uniyal, Ganesh Joshi along with state ministers Dhan Singh Rawat and Rekha Arya are also among the star campaigners. MLAs Puran Phartyal, Dewan Singh Bisht, Balwant Bhauryal, Chandan Ram Das and Mahesh Negi along with senior office bearers of the BJP including Rajendra Bhandari, Kuldeep Kumar, Suresh Bhatt and Suresh Joshi are also among the star campaigners of the party for the Salt by-election.

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