Ahmedabad: Seven candidates on Saturday filed their nominations for the April-May Lok Sabha polls, taking the total to fourteen since the notification was issued on March 28, a release by state Chief Electoral Officer, S Murli Krishna stated. Saturday was the third day of filing nominations.
Prominent among them was BJP chief Amit Shah who is contesting from Gandhinagar, a seat held multiple times by BJP patriarch LK Advani.
An Independent candidate, Keshav Kachhadia, also filed his nomination for the Gandhinagar seat on Saturday.
According to the release, Ayeshabanu Pathan of theAmbedkar National Congress has filed her candidature for Khedaconstituency.
Others who submitted nomination papers were RamkrishnaRajyaguru, an Independent candidate for Jamnagar seat, and Tapan Dasgupta of the Socialist Unity Centre of India(Communist) party for Vadodara seat, said the release.
Uttam Vasava, who is being fielded by the ChhotuVasava-led Bharatiya Tribal Party for Bardoli (ST) seat, alsofiled his papers on Saturday.
His dummy candidate Subhash Vasava also presented hiscandidature for the seat, the release informed.
The state will see five Assembly bypolls along sidethe Lok Sabha elections on 26 seats on April 23.
Independent candidate Haresh Patel filed hisnomination for the Unjha Assembly bypoll, the release said.
Seven candidates had filed their nominations on Friday for the Lok Sabha polls. The last date to file nominations is April 4.
