Union Ministers Shinde, Azad, Pilot file nominations

In UP, Rashtriya Parivartan Dal president D P Yadav today filed nomination from Sambhal.  In Madhya Pradesh, Congress' P C Sharma filed nomination from Bhopal.

In the fourth phase election will be held on April 12 in five seats---three out of 14 seats in Assam, lone seat in Sikkim, one out of two seats in Tripura. In the fifth phase, polling will be held for 122 seats in 13 states on April 17.

Scrutiny will be on March 27 and the last date for withdrawal is March 29.

In Kerala, the nomination papers of Congress nominee and Union Minister Shashi Tharoor was today accepted in Thiruvananthapuram constituency.

According to Chief Electoral Officer, total number of nominations received for the 20 Lok Sabha seats in the state that will go to polls on April 10 in third phase was 328.  Last date for withdrawing nomination in this phase is tomorrow.