Bhubaneswar, Jan 11: Gearing up its preparations for the upcoming panchayat polls that is slated to begin from Feb 13 in the State, today the BJD named 40 star campaigners for the party. Among the star campaigners, there were Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik, senior leaders of the ruling party and Minister Damodar Rout, Bijayshree Routray, Debi Prasad Mishra. Rajya Sabha MPs Prasanna Acharya and AU Singh Deo and Surya Narayan Patro were also among the list of BJD star campaigners. The only Lok Sabha MP who is among the ruling party’s star campaigners list is Siddhant Mohapatra. The other BJD leaders included in the list are Dilip Tirkey, Anubhav Mohanty and Akash Das Nayak. Also celebrities such as Mihir Das, Trupti Das, Kuna Tripathy, Arindam are also some of the BJD star campaigners.
