05 May,2024 04:06 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
Rahul Gandhi. File Pic/PTI
Congress has released a list of star campaigners for Maharashtra Lok Sabha elections 2024, which includes party's top leaders like Mallikarjun Kharge, Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi and others, reported the ANI.
According to the list released by the Congress, the leaders would be campaigning as per Section 77(1) of the Representation of People Act 1951, for the fifth phase of Lok Sabha elections 2024 in Maharashtra, which are scheduled to be held this month.
The names of Congress leaders including KC Venugopal, Ramesh Chennithala, Nanabhau Patole, Balasaheb Thorat, Vijay Wadettiwar, Sushilkumar Shinde, Prithviraj Chavan, Mukul Wasnik, Avinash Pande, Imran Pratapgarhi and others have been also included in the star campaigners list, the as per the ANI.
Earlier, Congress MP Rahul Gandhi, while addressing a poll rally in Maharashtra's Pune had said that the Congress government will be depositing Rs 1 lakh annually into the bank account of a woman beneficiary in every poor family account till the time that the family gets over the poverty line, as per the ANI.
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"We are listing out the names of all poor families in the country. PM Modi has made crores poor...We will be choosing one woman from those families and depositing Rs 1 lakh annually in their accounts," Rahul Gandhi had said, according to the ANI.
Maharashtra sends 48 seats to the Lok Sabha. Voting on 13 seats has been completed in the first and second phases, while 11 seats will go to polling in the third phase on May 7. Voting in Mumbai is scheduled for May 20. The counting of votes will be done on June 4.
In 2019, BJP won 23 seats, while its ally undivided Shiv Sena won 18 seats. Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), then undivided and the Congress could only win four and one seats respectively.
Meanwhile, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will lead the Lok Sabha poll campaign in Rae Bareli and Amethi, and camp in these parliamentary constituencies in Uttar Pradesh from Monday to ensure the party's victory in the two high-profile seats, according to sources, as per the PTI.
Ending days of suspense, the Congress on Friday announced that Rahul Gandhi will contest the Lok Sabha elections from Rae Bareli, the constituency held by his mother Sonia Gandhi for the last two decades, and Kishori Lal Sharma, a close aide of the Gandhi family, will fight from Amethi.
Priyanka Gandhi has already taken command of the campaigns and will remain camped in Rae Bareli and Amethi from Monday onwards, till the end of polls. She will campaign aggressively to ensure the victory of her brother Rahul Gandhi and Sharma, sources told PTI.
(with ANI and PTI inputs)
