Prez poll: Filing of nominations closes today
27 Jun 2017 5:41 PM GMT
The filing of nominations for the July 17 presidential election ends tomorrow with 64 papers, including those of NDA candidate Ram Nath Kovind, being filed so far.
Opposition nominee Meira Kumar is set to file her papers tomorrow morning at the Parliament House in the presence of Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and other opposition leaders, including Sitaram Yechury (CPI-M) and Derek O'Brien (TMC).
Though 64 papers have been filed so far, the number of actual candidates is much less at 57 as some of them have filed multiple nominations. One candidate can file a maximum of four nominations.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP veterans L K Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi were the prominent leaders who had proposed former Bihar governor Kovind's name in the nomination papers. Several Union ministers and MLAs had seconded the proposal on June 23.
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