LS polls: Union minister Amit Shah to visit Tamil Nadu on April 4

CHENNAI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, BJP national president JP Nadda have been named as star campaigners of the saffron party among 40 others in Tamil Nadu which will vote in a single phase of general elections on April 19.

A list shared by the Tamil Nadu BJP also features Union Ministers Rajnath Singh, Nitin Gadkari, S Jaishankar, Nirmala Sitharama, Smriti Irani, G Kishan Reddy, V Muraleedharan and Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath.

BJP top brass Vinod Tawde, Arvind Menon, P Sudhakar Reddy, K Annamalai, D Purandeswari, CT Ravi, O Panneerselvam, TTV Dhinakaran, GK Vasan, S Ramadoss, Anbumani Ramadoss, TR Paarivendhar, T Devanathan Yadav, B John Pandian, Tamilaruvi Manian, Tejasvi Surya, Vanathi Srinivasan, H Raja, Kushboo Sundar, Sarathkumar, VP Duraisamy, KS Narendran, P Kanaga Sabapathi, Karu Nagarajan, Narayanan Thirupathi, GK Nagaraj, Tada Periyasamy, Sayyed Ibrahim and actor Senthil will also hit the hustings.

Later on Thursday, the Election Commission of India (ECI) recognised 648 star campaigners of 29 parties for the April 19 Lok Sabha polls in the state.

Of these 648, Chief Minister MK Stalin and his ministers, party functionaries, alliance party leaders including actor Kamal Haasan were recognised by the ECI for DMK and on behalf of AIADMK, former chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami and 39 others were listed as recognised star campaigners for the April 19 LS polls.

However, the Indian National Congress (INC) and Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) are yet to submit the list of star campaigners to the ECI.