Overview
- The party released its 20-member star campaigner list for the Bihar Assembly elections on October 24.
- Akhilesh Yadav and Azam Khan headline the team alongside Dimple Yadav, Afzal Ansari, Awadhesh Prasad, Babu Singh Kushwaha and other senior figures.
- Shivpal Yadav and Ram Gopal Yadav are not on the list, drawing attention to internal positioning within the SP.
- Azam Khan’s potential return to the stump would be his first campaign activity since his September release from Sitapur jail on bail in the Quality Bar land case.
- SP leaders frame the slate as aimed at energising cadres and minority outreach as part of the INDIA bloc effort, with Bihar voting on November 6 and 11 and counting on November 14.