{"id":666356,"date":"2026-04-06T13:35:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T17:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/?p=666356"},"modified":"2026-04-06T13:35:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T17:35:30","slug":"west-bengal-elections-2026-bjp-releases-list-of-40-star-campaigners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/666356\/","title":{"rendered":"West Bengal Elections 2026: BJP releases list of 40 star campaigners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-666357\" src=\"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/BJP-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" \/>The West Bengal Assembly elections are nearing. Preparations for them are underway in full swing in the state. Following the Trinamool Congress, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) released its list of 40 star campaigners on Sunday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s name is at the top, followed by Nitin Naveen and Rajnath Singh.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Ministers from several states are also expected to participate in the BJP&#8217;s election campaign. This list includes Assam Chief Minister Hinata Biswa Sarma, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, and Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis.<\/p>\n<p>Several actresses will also be seen as BJP campaigners in the Bengal elections. Smriti Irani, Hema Malini, and Kangana Ranaut have been added to this list. Mithun Chakraborty, Bhupendra, and Manoj Tiwari will also play important roles.<\/p>\n<p>The names of several Union Cabinet Ministers including Union Environment Minister and Labour and Employment Minister Bhupendra Yadav, Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari, Women and Child Development Minister Annapurna Devi, Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Union Cabinet Minister and Health Minister JP Nadda have been included.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from this, the list also includes big names like Mohan Charan Majhi, Anurag Thakur, Babulal Marandi, Samrat Chaudhary, Sunil Bansal, Biplab Kumar Dev, Mangal Pandey, Amit Malviya, Samik Bhattacharya, Suvendu Adhikari, Dilip Ghosh, Sukanta Majumdar, Shantanu Thakur, Raju Bisht, Jayant Kumar Rai, Manoj Tigga, Bijan Goswami and Leander Adrian Paes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The West Bengal Assembly elections are nearing. Preparations for them are underway in full swing in the state. Following the Trinamool Congress, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) released its list of 40 star campaigners on Sunday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s name is at the top, followed by Nitin Naveen and Rajnath Singh. Chief Ministers from several states are also expected to participate in the BJP&#8217;s election campaign. This list includes Assam Chief Minister Hinata Biswa Sarma, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, and Maharashtra Chief&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":666357,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47743],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-666356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":666358,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666356\/revisions\/666358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}