The filing of nominations for the July 17 presidential election ended on Wednesday with 108 papers, including that of NDA candidate Ram Nath Kovind and Opposition's Meira Kumar, filed.
According to sources in the lok Sabha Secretariat, 108 nominations were filed by a total of 95 candidates, with some having filed multiple papers. A candidate can file a maximum of four nominations.
Of these, 35 candidates have already been rejected as they have not submitted the mandatory security deposit of Rs 15,000. Many more nominations are likely to be rejected on Thursday during scrutiny, as a majority of them do not have the adequate numbers of proposers and seconders from the electoral college.
Except Kovind's and Kumar's, the other papers are set to be rejected on June 29 during scrutiny as they lack the names of 50 proposers and as many seconders.
Total 13 aspirants filed their nominations for the presidential post each from Delhi and Uttar Pradesh respectively, followed by seven from Maharashtra, four from Madhya Pradesh and Haryana each. Three nominations each have been filed from Telangana and Tamil Nadu.
K Padmarajan from Salem, Tamil Nadu is among those who have filed nominations for the presidential election. Known as the 'election king', he has contested over 150 polls.
lalu Prasad Yadav from Saran district is another aspirant for the post. A Mumbai-based Patel couple, Saira Bano Mohammed Patel and Mohammed Patel Abdul Hamid, told the returning officer that it would be "good" if one of them became the president and the other the vice president. Prof Dr Dayashankar Agarwal is from Delhi while Dr Mir layaq Hussain is from Bengaluru who have filed nominations.