85 in fray for 4 seats in Ggm
As many as 58 candidates file nomination papers on the last day
GURUGRAM: ON the last day of filing nominations, 58 candidates, including independents and those associated with different political parties, filed their nominations in the four assembly segments of Gurugram district, taking the total number to 85, according to the district election office.
Gurgaon, Badshahpur, Sohna and Pataudi assembly constituencies fall in Gurugram district. The list of the candidates will be scrutinized on October 5 and the last day for withdrawing the nominations is October 7.
The state will go to polls on October 21 and results will be announced on October 24.
In Gurgaon constituency, 27 candidates are in the fray, after 19 nominations were filed on the last day. None of the major political parties has given a ticket to a woman candidate.
From Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Manish Yadav filed the nomination for the Badshahpur seat, while Sudhir Singla filed his nomination from Gurgaon. A large meeting of workers was organised by Yadav in Sector 10, attended by Gurgaon MP Rao Inderjit Singh and senior BJP functionaries, village leaders and a large number of supporters from Badshahpur.
From the Congress, Sukhbir Kataria, who was a state minister during the Congress government in 2009-2014, filed his nomination from Gurgaon. Kataria said that people of Gurgaon are facing a lot of difficulties due to lack of development and poor infrastructure.
Other candidates who filed the nomination from Gurgaon included Brahm Prakash of the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD), Sube Singh Bohra of the Jannayak Janata Party (JJP), Tarvinder Saini of the Loktantra Suraksha Party (LSP), Narender Singh of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP). The independents included Anita Agarwal, wife of BJP rebel Umesh Agarwal, Congress rebel leader Gaje Singh Kablana, Pramila Devi, Ashwani Sharma, who is an MCG councillor, Seema Pahuja also an MCG councillor, Abhinav Vashisht, Govind Naryan Khem, Kuldeep Singh Singh Bohra, Vikas and Dinesh Kumar.