New Delhi, September 29: Despite Atal Bihari Vajpayee being in retirement mode owing to his ill-health, the former Prime Minister figures among BJP’s 40 top campaigners for Maharashtra Assembly elections.
The BJP top brasses L K Advani, Rajnath Singh, Murli Manohar Joshi, Arun Jaitley and Sushma Swaraj are there along with Vajpayee, so also Manohar Parrikar, whose ‘rancid pickle’ remark against Advani had recently created a flutter.
Shatrughan Sinha, who has created a stir by praising Rahul Gandhi, is also among the 40 star campaigners.
BJP vice-president Gopinath Munde and spokesperson Prakash Javadekar are among the Marathi leaders from the central leadership who figure in the list of star campaigners.
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, who failed to garner votes for the party during the Lok Sabha elections in the state where he was made in-charge, leads several other party chief ministers in the campaigners’ list.
–PTI