Trinamool Congress' national general secretary and party's candidate from Diamond Harbour seat, Abhishek Banerjee on Friday filed his nomination for Lok Sabha elections.
Sharma, who has mostly been in the Rajya Sabha during his political career, contested from Kangra in Assembly elections in 1982 when he was defeated by BJP's Daulat Ram.
Congress candidate from the Mandi Lok Sabha seat Vikramaditya Singh filed his nomination papers in the presence of Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu and party MP Rajiv Shukla on Thursday.
Former MLA and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Assembly candidate from Odisha's Kuchinda, Rabi Narayan Naik, filed his nomination papers at the sub-collector office on Monday.
Taking a jibe at Congress candidate from North East Delhi Lok Sabha constituency and former JNU student leader Kanhaiya Kumar, who filed his nomination on Monday, BJP leader Manoj Tiwari asserted that Kanhaiya has said that he will be filing his nomination by holding massive rally but he
Kanhaiya, who is contesting his second Lok Sabha election, will fight the poll battle against BJP's two time MP from the same constituency, Manoj Tiwari.
"I do not underestimate them (opposition), but I find that they are not in the ground. They are absent from the contest...," Gangopadhyay said speaking about the TMC in Tamluk.
Raebareli, a stronghold of the Gandhi family, was represented by her mother Sonia Gandhi since 2004 in the outgoing Lok Sabha. There was speculation earlier that Priyanka Gandhi Vadra would contest from either Amethi or Raebareli, two seats in Uttar Pradesh, which are prestige battles for th
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and other party leaders on Friday offered prayers here after he filed his nomination papers from Uttar Pradesh's Raebareli seat.