Bhubaneswar: Expediting the campaign trail for the most crucial political battle to acquire Patkura Assembly seat under Kendrapara Lok Sabha Constituency, both the ruling BJD and opposition BJP have released their lists of star campaigners for the ensuing election.

The Biju Janata Dal (BJD) announced party Supremo Naveen Patnaik as its star campaigner adding 40 heavyweights including Pramila Mallick, Prafulla Kumar Mallick, Sashibhusan Behera, Pratap Deb, Debi Prasad Mishra, Pratap Jena, Pranab Prakash Das, Susanta Singh, Anubhav Mohanty, Dibya Shankar Mishra and Bikaram Panda to the list for the campaign in Patkura.

Similarly, the Ollywood faces -- Arindam Roy, Kuna Tripathy and Akash Das Nayak -- are also in the BJD list of star campaigners for the Patkura Assembly poll.

BJD's list of star campaigners:

1. Naveen Patnaik
2. Pramila Mallick
3. Prafulla Mallick
4. Sashibhusan Behera
5. Debi Prasad Mishra
6. Pratap Deb
7. Pratap Jena
8. Atanu Sabyasachi Nayak
9. Pradip Kumar Panigrahi
10. Sanjay Das Burma
11. Arun Sahoo
12. Pranab Prakash Das
13. Samir Ranjan Dash
14. Susanta Singh
15. Dibya Shankar Mishra
16. Raghunandan Das
17. Rajendra Sahoo
18. Sarada Prasad Nayak
19. Chandra Sarathi Behera
20. Pranab Kumar Balabantray
21. Anubhav Mohanty
22. Arabinda Dhali
23. Umakanta Samantray
24. Ananta Narayan Jena
25. Byomokesh Ray
26. Braja Kishore Pradhan
27. Ashok Kumar Bal
28. Devi Ranjan Tripathy
29. Bikram Panda
30. Sudhi Kumar Samal
31. Latika Pradhan
32. Souvik Biswal
33. Haji Md. Ayub Khan
34. Muzibulla Khan
35. Arindam Roy
36. Akash Das Nayak
37. Kuna Tripathy
38. Subash Singh
39. Minati Behera
40. Srimayee Sweta Snigdha Mishra

Meanwhile, the state unit of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) also released its list of 40 star campaigners for the upcoming poll. The saffron party's strong leaders including Dharmendra Pradhan, Pratap Sarangi, Jual Oram, Baijayanta Panda, Suresh Pujari, Sambit Patra, Basanta Panda, KV Singh Deo, Aparajita Sarangi, Sangeeta Singh Deo, Pradipta Naik, Sameer Dey and Damodar Rout will enter into the ground to campaign for the party to win Patkura seat.

BJP's list of star campaigners:

1. Arun Singh
2. Dharmendra Pradhan
3. Pratap Chandra Sarangi
4. Jual Oram
5. Baijayanta Panda
6. Suresh Pujari
7. Sambit Patra
8. Basanta Panda
9. Biswa Bhushan Harichandan
10. KV Singh Deo
11. Manmohan Samal
12. Aparajita Sarangi
13. Sangeeta Singh Deo
14. Pradipta Kumar Naik
15. Bishnu Charan Sethi
16. Mohan Charan Majhi
17. Sameer Dey
18. Damodar Rout
19. Surama Padhy
20. Samir Mohanty
21. MA Kharavela Swain
22. Rudra Narayan Pani
23. Manas Kumar Mohanty
24. Prithviraj Harichandan
25. Bhrugu Baxipatra
26. Pravati Parida
27. Thakur Ranjit Das
28. Raghunath Mohanty
29. Jayanarayan Mishra
30. Subash Panigrahi
31. Madan Mohan Dutta
32. Lalitendu Bidyadhar Mohapatra
33. Jayant Sarangi
34. Sukant Naik
35. Nauri Naik
36. Mukesh Mahaling
37. Sritam Das
38. Anu Choudhury
39. Harihar Mohapatra
40. Pinky Pradhan

Besides, the Congress also released its list of star campaigners for the assembly poll in Patkura.

Here's the list of Congress star campaigners:

1. Jitendra Singh
2. TS Singh Deo
3. Niranjan Patnaik
4. Narasingha Mishra
5. Chiranjib Biswal
6. Pradeep Majhi
7. Ramachandra Khuntia
8. G Rudra Raju
9. Sharat Rout
10. Biswa Ranjan Mohanty
11. Bhakta Charan Das
12. Ranjib Biswal
13. Saptagiri Ulaka
14. Suresh Kumar Routray
15. Santosh Singh Saluja
16. Tara Prasad Bahinipati
17. Ramesh Chandra Jena
18. Adhiraj Mohan Panigrahi
19. Dasarathi Gomango
20. Mohammed Moquim
21. CS Rajan Ekka
22. Jayadeb Jena
23. Sharat Patanaik
24. Prasad Harichandan
25. Ganeswar Behera
26. Ansuman Mohanty
27. Debendranath Sharma
28. Dharanidhar Nayak
29. Bijaylaxmi Sahoo
30. Bandita Parida
31. Sasmita Behera
32. Bhujabal Majhi
33. Biren Senapati
34. Hamid Hussain
35. Subhendu Mohanty
36. Satya Prakash Nayak
37. Arindam Sarkhel
38. Jnanadev Behura
39. Amiya Pandav
40. Manisha Tripathy