Of the 243 seats in the Assembly, Congress is contesting 70 seats in an alliance with the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and left-wing parties.
On Saturday, Congress sent a list of 30 star activists to the Electoral Commission (EC) for the first phase of the Bihar Assembly elections. The list includes leaders who had questioned the party’s leadership through a letter in August.
The list, issued by Secretary General KC Venugopal, included MP Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad, Akhilesh Prasad Singh and Raj Babbar, who were part of the Group of 23 who had questioned the leadership, as well as Sachin Pilot, who had rebelled. against the Chief Minister of Rajashthan, Ashok. Gehlot.
In addition to Congress Speaker Sonia Gandhi, former Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh, former party chief Rahul Gandhi, General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, names include movie star-turned-politician Shatrughan Sinha, former player cricket and MP Kirti Azad and popular Urdu poet Imran Pratapgarhi.
Other top leaders who have been mentioned on the list include Meira Kumar, Randeep Surjewala, and Nikhil Kumar, among others.
However, Gandhi and Dr. Singh are unlikely to travel to Bihar amid the pandemic, and the party may instead opt for digital rallies for them.
The former party chief is likely to be the main activist in Congress even though Gandhi’s election tour program has yet to be finalized, a source said.
The top ministers of the states governed by Congress, including Amarinder Singh (Punjab), Ashok Gehlot (Rajasthan), Bhupesh Baghel (Chhattisgarh), will also be part of the opposition campaign.
Of the 243 Assembly seats in the state, Congress is contesting 70 seats in an alliance with the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and left-wing parties. RJD leads the coalition and will run candidates in 144 seats.
Congress, so far, has announced only 21 names. The party’s central electoral committee will meet Monday to finalize the names of the remaining 49 seats.
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