GUWAHATI: The BJP candidate Pallab Lochan Das and Congress candidate MGVK Bhanu are among the nine candidates filed nomination papers on the last day on Monday for the Lok Sabha elections to the 9-Tezpur Parliamentary Constituency in Assam that will go to polls in the first phase to be held on April 11 next.
The candidates filed their nominations before the Returning Officer for 9-Tezpur parliamentary constituency and Deputy Commissioner Sonitpur, Narsing Pawar.
Independent candidate Ziabur Rahman Khan had filed his nominations on Friday last which takes the total number of nominations filed for 9-Tezpur HPC to ten.
The nine candidates who filed their nominations on Monday are: Mahendra Orang of Voters’ Party International (VPI), Mahendra Bhuyan of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), MGVK Bhanu of Indian National Congress (INC), independent candidate Iqbal Ansari, Ranvijay Kumar Rai of Bahujan Mukti Party (BMP), Bijoy Kumar Tiru of Adivasi National Party of Assam (ANPA), Ram Bahadur Sonar of National People’s Party (NPP), Pallab Lochan Das of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Krishna Hari Paul of All India Hindustan Congress Party.
The nominations will be scrutinized on March 26. The last date of withdrawal of nominations is March 28.