Hyderabad: Apart from Ms Sharmila and Ms Vijayalakshmi, YSRC chief Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy’s wife Bharathi will be a star campaigner for the party.
Ms Bharathi will be campaigning mostly in Pulivendula as her husband will be touring the state ahead of the elections.
All major political parties have submitted their lists of star campaigners in the state to the Election Commission. Interestingly, actor Pawan Kalyan’s name is missing from both the Telugu Desam and the BJP lists. It is believed that he will campaign on behalf of his own party Jana Sena and share a dais with BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi and TD chief N. Chandrababu Naidu.
Apart from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, top Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi and senior leaders like Ponnala Lakshmaiah, the Congress’ list of 40 for Telangana region has cricketer-turned-politician Mohammed Azharuddin and actor-turned-politician Nagma.
Mr Lakshmaiah’s daughter-in-law Ponnala Vaishali, a Mahila Congress leader, has also been named as a star campaigner. Little known leaders like Ch Krathi, Premlal, Sirajuddin , Krishna and Jaganlal R. Naik are also on the list.
Mr Lakshmaiah said, “Vaishali has been working in the party for the past seven years and she is an active woman Congress leader and also a US-returned neurologist. She will be campaigning wherever there is a need. She is one among several other leaders in the list.”
