KANGANA RANAUT, HEMA MALINI AND SMRITI IRANI TO ADD STAR POWER TO BJP CAMPAIGN

PRAYAGRAJ: The district unit of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has started inviting star campaigners and national and state level senior leaders to canvass for party candidates at both Allahabad and Phulpur parliamentary constituencies.

The district unit will also organise a series of events, including yuva sammelan, Mahila Morcha sammelan, SC\ST sammelan, OBC sammelan, Kisan Morcha sammelan, Panna Pramukh sammelan and Prabudh varg sammelan at twin seats between May 8 and 15. For Mahila morcha sammelan, party has proposed to invite Kangana Ranaut, Hema Malini and Smriti Irani to attend sammelan," BJP spokesman Rajesh Kesarwarni told TOI.

Similarly, for yuva sammelan, party has mooted a proposal to invite Union ministers Anurag Thakur and Jyotiraditya Scindia. while UP deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya will be invited to attend OBC sammelan senior leaders Narendra Singh Tomar and UP cabinet minister Surya Pratap Shahi will be invited to attend Kishan Morcha sammelan.

Besides this, the party is also gearing up for a mega rally of Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Parade ground and Union home minister Amit Shah's roadshow on city streets. Moreover, other senior party leaders and Union ministers are likely to come to Sangam city to campaign or address public meetings.

"Party has intensified campaigning for both Lok Sabha seats and around 70,000 panna pramukhs have been assigned to connect with eligible voters in 12 assembly seats of the district ahead of polls," he said.

The party has altogether appointed 32,598 and 37,044 panna pramukhs in Allahabad and Phulpur seats respectively for different roles and responsibilities. A panna refers to a page in electoral rolls which is assigned to each prabhari (in-charge). Names of one or more families are listed on each page of the voters' list and each panna prabhari or panna pramukh is assigned the task to provide special attention to these families.