The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) made adjustments to its roster of 40-star campaigners for Maharashtra, notably excluding Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar. This decision followed a complaint filed by the NCP (SP) with the Election Commission, accusing the BJP of breaching the Representation of the People Act and electoral regulations by featuring individuals from opposing parties (CM Eknath Shinde and DCM Ajit Pawar) in their initial list of star campaigners released last month.
The NCP (SP) contended that including names of individuals from rival political factions in their Star Campaigner List infringed upon Section 77 of the Representation of People's Act.
The revised lineup was unveiled as the polling for five constituencies in East Vidarbha is scheduled for April 19.
The updated list includes prominent figures such as Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP President J.P. Nadda, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Home Minister Amit Shah, Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant, Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel, Vishnu Deo Sai, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav, Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, Chandrashekhar Bawankule, Shiv Prakash, Minister of Textiles, Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal, Minister of Information and Broadcasting Anurag Thakur, Minister of Civil Aviation Jyotiraditya Scindia, Minister of Women and Child Development Smriti Irani, former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment Ramdas Athavale, Narayan Rane, Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary, Raosaheb Danve-Patil, Ashok Chavan, Vinod Tawde, Ashish Shekhar, Pankaja Munde Plave, Chandrakant Patil, Sudhir Mungantiwar, Radhakrishna Vikhe-Patil, Girish Mahajan, Ravindra Chavan, K Annamalai, Manoj Tiwari, Ravi Kisan, Bhagwat Karad, Amar Sable, Pravin Darekar, Gopichand Papalkar, and Ashish Deshmukh.
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