BJP releases list of 40 star campaigners for West Bengal polls

The Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday (March 10) announced the list of star campaigners for the upcoming West Bengal Assembly elections.
 

PM Modi, JP Nadda, Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, Smriti Irani, Nitin Gadkari, Dharmendra Pradhan, Kailash Vijayvargiya, Dilip Ghosh are among the prominent star campaigners.
 

Recently, many Tollywood celebrities joined the BJP in group to follow in the footsteps of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and bring about change. 
 

The BJP has announced actor Hiran Chattopadhyaya will contest from the Kharagpur Sadar Vidhan Sabha constituency and Supriti Chatterji from Barjora Vidhan Sabha constituency.
 

On March 7, the BJP had released the first list of 57 candidates for the West Bengal assembly polls and fielded Suvendu Adhikari from Nandigram. 
 

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is contesting from Nandigram constituency this time. Thus, it remains to be seen who wins from Nandigram.
 

Elections in Bengal will be held in eight phases, beginning with polling for 30 seats on March 27. The results will be announced on May 2.