The last day of nominations for the Himachal Assembly polls witnessed several political heavy weights filling their nominations, including former chief minister Prem Kumar Dhumal of BJP, Vidya Stokes of Congress and son of Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh, Vikramaditya Singh.
On the last day, 275 candidates filed their nominations taking the total to 475 candidates. This includes, 119 in Kangra district, 71 in Mandi, 64 in Shimla, 41 in Hamirpur, 28 in Chamba, 29 in Solan, 27 in Sirmaur, 47 in Una, 17 in Bilaspur, 23 in Kullu, 5 each in lahaul-Spiti and Kinnaur district.
Dhumal filed his nomination with a battery of his supporters in Sujanpur while Stokes who decided to contest at the last moment, filed nomination from Theog.
New entrant but heavy weight, Vikramaditya, son of Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh filed his nomination in Shimla. Vikramaditya was accompanied by Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh to the nomination centre along with a number of his supporters. His mother former MP Pratibha Singh and sister Aprajita were also present while he filed his nomination.
The Congress high command had cleared Vikramaditya's name a day before after much deliberations.
Both Congress and BJP came across a number of rebels who filed their nominations after being denied party tickets.
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