A total of 32 candidates filed their nominations in 10 Parliamentary constituencies of the second phase in Madhya Pradesh on Tuesday. So far, 73 nominations have been filed for the second phase.
On Tuesday, maximum 8 nominations were filed in Bhopal followed by 5 in Gwalior, 4 in Khajuraho, 3 each in Bhind, Morena and Rajgarh, 2 each in Sagar and Guna and one candidate each filed nomination inTikamgarh and Damoh.
Congress lok Sabha candidate from Bhopal PC Sharma filed his nomination on Tuesday. Congress general secretary and former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Digvijay Singh and Madhya Pradesh Congress Committee president and MP Arun Yadav besides hundreds of Congress workers reached the Bhopal collectorate in the shape of a rally with Sharma on the occasion.
The only Congress MlA from the Bhopal parliamentary constituency Arif Aqueel was not seen on the occasion while the Congress party’s defeated candidate from Bhopal Madhya assembly constituency Arif Masood, former MP Surendra Singh Thakur and former MlA Jodharam Gurjar were also seen with Sharma on the occasion.
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) candidate from Bhopal Rachna Dhingra also filed her nomination on Tuesday.
Others who filed their nominations from the Bhopal parliamentary constituency include Shailendra Kumar Shelly of Communist Party of India (CPI), JC Barai of Communist Party of India – Marxist (CPI -M) and four independents Vijay Kumar Sen, Shahid, Ansar Ahmed and Prbhavati Shakya.
March 26 is the last date for filing nominations for the second phase and the notification for the same was issued on March 19.
Nominations will be scrutinised on March 27. Nominations can be withdrawn till March 29.
Ten constituencies of the state that would go to polls in the second phase for which polling would be held on April 17, include Morena, Bhind, Gwalior, Guna, Sagar, Tikamgarh, -Damoh, Khajuraho, Bhopal and Rajgarh.