Bangalore: In a strong bid to woo every section of voters, the Congress party’s Campaign Committee has decided to launch a series of region and language specific campaigns across the State by roping in as many as 40 star campaigners including mega star Chiranjeevi, Bollywood actor Riteish Deshmukh, former cricketer, Mohammed Azharuddin and popular Kannada actors Ambarish and Shashikumar.
Apart from this, political heavyweights like AICC president Sonia Gandhi. Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi and Union ministers P. Chidambaram, A. K. Antony, Ghulam Nabi Azad, Kapil Sibal, Ambika Soni and Sushil Kuamr Shinde will be touring the State ahead of the assembly polls.
The detailed tour campaign programme is yet to be finalized. The Campaign Committee will be meeting to give its final touch to the tour programmes after consulting KPCC president, Dr G. Parameshwar.
Campaign Committee chairman, Veeranna Mattikatti said, “We are going to people with a catch line Abhivruddhiye Mantra Adhikarakkagi Tantra (Development is Mantra, winning power is Strategy).“ According to him, Azharuddin, Azad and state leaders like former CM S.M. Krishna and Union ministers Mallikarjuan Kharge and Rehman Khan will be extensively touring the State.
“Chiranjeevi, now a Union minister, will be requested to tour districts with a Telugu speaking population in the Hyderabad-Karnataka region and Kolar district where he commands enormous influence. Similarly, we will ask Maharashtra leaders, Sushil Kumar Shinde, Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan and Bollywood actor, Riteish Deshmukh to tour Marathi speaking regions like Belgaum, Bidar and Bijapur,“ Mattikatti added.