Vajpayee, Advani to campaign in Bihar

Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Lal Kishenchand Advani and Uma Bharti will be among the Bharatiya Janata Party leaders to campaign in Bihar, where assembly election will be held in February, state unit president Gopal Narain Singh said on Sunday.

Besides, the party will take the services of former BJP chief Venkaiah Naidu, general secretaries Pramod Mahajan and Rajnath Singh and senior leaders Murli Manohar Joshi and Sushma Swaraj, Singh said.

Actor and former Union minister Shatrughan Sinha is in charge of the campaign committee, he said.

Singh said these leaders would touch almost all the 243 constituencies in Bihar.