Punjab Elections 2017: 1,941 Candidates File Nominations

With assembly elections in Punjab less than a month away, the process of filing nomination papers came to an end on Wednesday with 1,941 candidates filing nominations for the 117 assembly constituencies in the state. Congress’s newest recruit Navjot Singh Sidhu, state Congress chief Amarinder Singh and the Aam Aadmi Party’s Bhagwant Mann were among the 1,040 candidates who filed the nominations on the last day itself for the February 4 assembly elections in the state. Navjot Sidhu filed his nomination from the Amritsar East seat, while Bhagwant Mann filed his nomination from Jalalabad. Amarinder Singh filed his papers from Lambi where he will take on Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal. Punjab is set to witness high octane battles from Lambi and Jalalabad assembly seats. Punjab will witness a three-way fight between the ruling Shiromani Akali Dal, Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party and the Congress in all 117 assembly seats.

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