Bhubaneswar, Apr 2: The BJD on Friday released the list of 30 star campaigners to campaign in favour of its candidate Rudra Pratap Maharathy for Pipili bypoll, scheduled to be held on April 17.
BJD supremo and Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik tops the list, which comprises several ministers, MPs and MLAs.
Other star campaigners are: Pranab Prakash Das, Debi Prasad Mishra, Maheshwar Mohanty, Pinaki Misra, Pratap Keshar Deb, Atanu Sabyasachi Nayak, Niranjan Pujari, Sanjay Kumar Das Burma, Pramila Mallick, Ashok Chandra Panda, Samir Ranjan Dash, Sushant Kumar Singh, Nabakishore Das, Chandra Sarathi Behera, Tukuni Sahu, Snehangini Chhuria, Tusharkanti Behera, Muzibulla Khan, Priti Ranjan Gharai, Pranab Kumar Balabantray, Sudhir Kumar Samal, Byomokesh Ray, Umakant Samantray, Anang Kumar Jena, Bibhuti Balbantray, Rajendra Kumar Sahoo, Devi Ranjan Tripathy, Akash Dasnayak and Arindam Ray.
It is noteworthy that though two Ollywood actors, Akash Dasnayak and Arindam Ray, have been named as BJD star campaigners, the name of party MP Anubhav Mohanty, who is also a noted Odia film actor, has not figured in the list.