LUCKNOW, Oct. 24 -- Samajwadi Party (SP) national president Akhilesh Yadav and national general secretary Azam Khan are among the 20 star campaigners of the party for the second phase of Bihar assembly polls the list of which was released on Friday.

If Azam Khan takes part in the party campaign for INDIA bloc candidates, this will be his first after spending almost two years in Sitapur jail from where he was released last month after getting bail in the Quality Bar land case.

However, the names of both uncles of Akhilesh Yadav-Shivpal Yadav and Ram Gopal Yadav- have not been included in the list of SP campaigners. Elections to the 243-member Bihar Assembly will be held in two phases on November 6 and 11, while the counting will take pla...